F. W. Walbank
Polybius
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"Students of Polybius and Roman imperialism will read with profit the learned and judicious analyses which result from many years of Polybian study by the leading authority on the subject . . . a general wide-ranging analysis of the work of the Greek historian who chronicled and interpreted the great imperial adventure undertaken by Rome in the third and second centuries B.C."—A.H. Bernstein, Classical World
"[A] superb synthesis, which the Sather Professorship has stimulated Walbank to produce. . . . Walbank's 'Sathers' must rank as one of the most distinguished volumes in that eminent series."—R.M. Errington, Journal of Roman Studies
"The qualities which one has come to associate with Professor Walbank's work are all present here: learning, lucidity, balanced judgement and imaginative insight. He comes as near as anyone is likely to do to explaining what is ultimately an enigmatic figure."—D.E.W. Wormell, Hermathena
"The best general book on this author that exists in any language."—P.S. Derow, Phoenix
"A tour de force."—Times Literary Supplement
"[A] superb synthesis, which the Sather Professorship has stimulated Walbank to produce. . . . Walbank's 'Sathers' must rank as one of the most distinguished volumes in that eminent series."—R.M. Errington, Journal of Roman Studies
"The qualities which one has come to associate with Professor Walbank's work are all present here: learning, lucidity, balanced judgement and imaginative insight. He comes as near as anyone is likely to do to explaining what is ultimately an enigmatic figure."—D.E.W. Wormell, Hermathena
"The best general book on this author that exists in any language."—P.S. Derow, Phoenix
"A tour de force."—Times Literary Supplement
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.