Polybius is one of our main sources for the socio-economic conditions in Greece in the late third and the second century B.C. The article discusses Polybius' attitude towards the revolution in Greece ...

Sometime around 118 B.C., a boar-hunting octogenarian cantering through southern Greece suddenly fell off his horse. The sprightly retiree — who ended up succumbing to his injuries — was Polybius, the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Ancient Society is an annual journal founded in 1970 by the Ancient History section of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Its main ...

Legend has it that in 1981 an arcade cabinet called Polybius briefly took residence in Portland, Oregon. But Polybius was no ordinary video game. Many believe that it was a tool of the United States ...

In the same year, 183 BCE, two great figures of ancient military history passed away. One was the Roman Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus; the other, a Greek whose body was cremated in a ceremony of ...