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| | Encyclopedia: Polybius |
 | | Polybius (203 BC - 120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world, especially the rise of the Roman Republic. | | | After the destruction of Corinth in the same year, he returned to Greece and made use of his Roman connections to lighten the conditions there; Polybius was entrusted with the difficult task of organizing the new form of government in the Greek cities, and in this office gained for himself the highest recognition. | | | His political career was devoted largely towards maintaining the independence of the Achaean League. |
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| | Polybius -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The most significant influence on Scipio's character was his friendship with the Greek historian Polybius, one of the thousand Achaean leaders who had been deported and detained without trial in Italy. | | | ,” said the Greek statesman and historian Polybius. | | | Writing in the 1st century BC, Dionysius of Halicarnassus reckons Polybius among those who “have left behind them compositions which no one endures to read to the end”; that his successors shared this view of Polybius' style is confirmed by the failure of his works to survive except in an incomplete form. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Polybius (Historians, Ancient, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | As one of the leaders of the Achaean League and a friend of Philopoemen, he was influential in Greek politics. | | | It was also under the Scipios' patronage that Polybius undertook his universal history, one of the great historical works of all time (see tr. | | | It was Polybius' chief aim to trace for his contemporaries the causes of the sudden rise of Rome; his history covered the Mediterranean world from before 220 |
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| | His style cannot be more fitly described than in the language of Quintilian, who speaks of his mira iucunditas and lactea ubertas." | | | Scipio, on his return from Spain, urged an immediate invasion of Africa. | | | "How satisfying to the ear and taste are the periods of Livy when he is putting into Latin the heavy and uncouth clauses of Polybius!" - Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 edition. |
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