Polybius

Polybius was born around 200 BC in Megalopolis, in Arcadia, Greece, the son of Lycortas, a leading statesman of the Achaean League, a federation of Greek cities. As a young man he carried the funeral urn of the statesman Philopoemen. After Rome defeated King Perseus of Macedon in 168 BC, Polybius was one of a thousand prominent Achaeans taken to Italy as hostages. In Rome he became a friend and tutor of the young Scipio Aemilianus, and he accompanied him on campaigns, witnessing the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC. He also helped arrange the settlement of Greece after the Romans sacked Corinth that year. His Histories, in forty books, of which only the first five survive complete, set out to explain how Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. In Book VI he explains Rome's success through its mixed constitution, which combined elements of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, an idea that later influenced the framers of the United States Constitution. He is said to have died after falling from a horse, around 118 BC.

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