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Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC), Greek Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called The Histories covering in detail the period of 220–146 BC. He is also renowned for his ideas of political balance in government, which were later used in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws and in the drafting of the United States Constitution. ...more

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	The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius, Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator), Frank William Walbank (Editor) 4.06 avg rating — 4,822 ratings — published -170 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Histories, Vol 1: Books 1-2 by Polybius, William Roger Paton (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 112 ratings — published -118 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Histories, Vol 3: Books 5-8 by Polybius, William Roger Paton (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 66 ratings — published -175 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Histories, Vol 2: Bks.III & IV 4.31 avg rating — 59 ratings — published -150 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Histories, Vol 4: Books 9-15 by Polybius, William Roger Paton (Translator) 4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings — published -150 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Histories, Vol 5: Books 16-27 4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1926 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Histories, Vol 6: Bks.XXVIII-XXXIX 4.42 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1927 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of Polybius 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rome and the Mediterranean Vol.1: The Histories 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published -167 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Histories of Polybius, Vol. I & II (of 2) by Polybius, Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.”
― Polybius

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“If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.”
― Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire

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“In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.”
― Polybius, The Histories, Vol 6: Bks.XXVIII-XXXIX

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The History Book ...: * WE ARE OPEN - WEEK 8 AND WEEK 9: - (September 21st 2015 - October 4, 2015) - Chapter 4: Roman Insights: Polybius and Cicero - page 111 - 148 - (No Spoilers, please)	44	43	Oct 06, 2015 08:19PM

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