“For as a living creature is rendered wholly useless if deprived of its eyes, so if you take truth from History, what is left but an improfitable tale.”

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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