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During the years following the end of the Second World War there was a remarkable surge of interest in Polybius, which it is hard to dissociate en-.

Polybius was a Greek historian who was taken hostage by the Romans after a battle.

He was born near the close of the third century BCE at Megalopolis in Achaea, and the dual Roman victories over Alexander's successor kingdoms.

Polybius

Ancient Greek historian and politician

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Polybius (; Ancient Greek: Πολύβιος, Polýbios; c. 200 – c. 118 BC) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.

He is noted for his work The Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC. It covered the period of 264–146 BC, recording in detail events in Italy, Iberia, Greece, Macedonia, Syria, Egypt and Africa, and documented the Punic Wars and Macedonian Wars among many others.

Polybius's Histories is important not only for being the only Hellenistic historical work to survive in any substantial form, but also for its analysis of constitutional change and the mixed constitution. Polybius's discussion of the separation of powers in government, of checks and balances to limit power, and his introduction of "the people", all influenced Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws