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Notable ideas. Anacyclosis. Polybius ( / pəˈlɪbiəs /; Greek: Πολύβιος, Polýbios; c. 200 – c. 118 BC) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work The Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC.
Polybius is a fictitious 1981 arcade game from an urban legend. The legend describes the game as part of a government-run crowdsourced psychology experiment based in Portland, Oregon . Gameplay supposedly produced intense psychoactive and addictive effects in the player.
Jul 1, 2024 · Polybius (born c. 200 bce, Megalopolis, Arcadia, Greece—died c. 118) was a Greek statesman and historian who wrote of the rise of Rome to world prominence.
The Polybius square, also known as the Polybius checkerboard, is a device invented by the ancient Greeks Cleoxenus and Democleitus, and made famous by the historian and scholar Polybius. The device is used for fractionating plaintext characters so that they can be represented by a smaller set of symbols, which is useful for telegraphy ...
Jul 11, 2012 · Polybius (l. c. 208-125 BCE) was, whilst a Greek historian, a Roman historian, in that his work dealt with explaining how Rome came to be so great. Like the three Classical Greek Historians, Polybius...
The importance and magnitude of the subject. Had the praise of History been passed over by former Chroniclers it would perhaps have been incumbent upon me to urge the choice and special study of records of this sort, as the readiest means men can have of correcting their knowledge of the past.
Jul 22, 2012 · However, since Polybius' Histories covers just 118 years out of those 350 (from 264- 146 BC) there is a slight problem in calling him our best guide because he doesn't so much as cover even half of the Hellenistic period; a happy medium would be to call him the best guide that we have to the period which he covers.
Jul 28, 2021 · Polybius is the most important source for the rise of Roman imperialism during the Middle Roman Republic ( c. 265– c. 150 BCE ). By ancient historiographical standards, his work is of the highest quality, and in this regard he is often compared with Thucydides.
Polybius , (born c. 200, Megalopolis, Arcadia, Greece—died c. 118 bc), Greek statesman and historian. Son of an Achaean statesman, Polybius was one of 1,000 eminent Achaeans deported to Rome in 168 bc for supposed disloyalty to the Romans.
May 11, 2023 · To many scholars, Polybius is seen as one of the founding fathers of Roman historiography – along with Cato the Elder (234-149 BC). Polybius’ instructions for historians and geographers. In Book XII of “The Histories”, Polybius explains how explains how historians should go about their works.
