Polybius
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Ancient Greek historian
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Why Is Polybius Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Polybius was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work , a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC. It covered the period of 264–146 BC, recording in detail events in Italy, Iberia, Greece, Macedonia, Syria, Egypt and Africa, and documented the Punic Wars and Macedonian Wars among many others.
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