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Frank W. Walbank
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LOCATION: Cambridge CB3 9JL, United Kingdom

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Rathbone Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool. Author of A Historical Commentary on Polybius and others.

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Polybius, statue in Vienna.
Polybius was a Greek statesman and historian who wrote of the rise of Rome to world prominence. Polybius was the son of Lycortas, a distinguished Achaean statesman, and he received the upbringing considered appropriate for a son of rich landowners. His youthful biography of Philopoemen reflected…
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