TY - GEN T1 - Polybius T2 - Sather classical lectures ; A1 - Walbank, F. W. (Frank William), 1909-2008 LA - English PP - Berkeley, CA PB - University of California Press YR - 1972 ED - Reprint 2019. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1163878517 AB - As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during which the Romans weathered the war with Hannibal and became masters of the Mediterranean world. F. W. Walbank describes the historical traditions within which Polybius wrote as well as his concept of history. OP - 214 CN - DG206.P65 W34 1972 SN - 9780520342637 SN - 0520342631 SN - 9780520069817 KW - Polybius. : Historiae. KW - Historiae (Polybius) KW - History, Ancient : Historiography. KW - Histoire ancienne : Historiographie. KW - HISTORY : Ancient : General. KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General KW - History, Ancient : Historiography ER -