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Polybius, plaster model for a statue in Vienna (photograph by Manfred Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Polybius, plaster model for a statue in Vienna (photograph by Manfred Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Polybius

c. 200–c. 118 BC · Historian

A leader of the Achaean League taken to Rome as a hostage, who became the friend of Scipio Aemilianus, watched Carthage burn and wrote the history of Rome’s rise to world power.

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The Histories, in Greek beside English.

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