“The two sources of all action are impulse and reason.”

— Polybius

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About Polybius

Historian • Greek

Polybius was a prominent Greek historian of the Hellenistic period, born in Megalopolis, Arcadia. He is celebrated for his magnum opus, "The Histories," which meticulously documented the rise of the Roman Republic to...

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