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Polybius:     more books (100)

The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Polybius, 1980-02-28 The Complete Histories of Polybius by Polybius, 2009-01-01 The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Polybius, Robin Waterfield, et all 2011-01-15 The Histories, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library) by Polybius, 2010-05-31 The Histories, Volume II: Books 3-4 (Loeb Classical Library) by Polybius, 2010-05-31 Polybius' Histories (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature) by Brian C. McGing, 2010-03-24 Polybius: The Histories, Vol. IV, Books 9-15 (Loeb Classical Library, No. 159) by Polybius, 1992-07 The General History of Polybius [Books 1-17] Tr. by Mr. Hampton 5th Ed by Polybius, 2010-03 Andrea Palladio and the Architecture of Battle: With the Unpublished Edition of Polybius' Histories The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius (Viking Portable Library) A HISTORICAL COMMENTARY ON POLYBIUS by F. W Walbank, 1999 The Histories of Polybius by Polybius, 2009-08-15 A Historical Commentary on Polybius, Vol. 2 by F. W. Walbank, 1982-09-23 Cultural Politics in Polybius's <i>Histories</i> (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Craige B. Champion, 2004-08-23

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1. Polybius - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   polybius (ca. 203–120 BC, Greek ) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean Sea world famous for his book called The Histories covering in detail  
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   Extractions: Jump to: navigation search For other uses, see Polybius (disambiguation) Polybius (ca. 120 BC Greek ) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean Sea world famous for his book called The Histories covering in detail the period of 146 BC . He is also renowned for his ideas of political balance in the government, which was later used in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws and the drafting of the United States Constitution As the former tutor of Scipio Aemilianus , the famous adopted grandson of the general Scipio Africanus , Polybius remained on terms of the most cordial friendship and remained a counselor to the man who defeated the Carthaginians in the Third Punic War . The younger Scipio eventually captured and destroyed Carthage , in 146 BC Polybius was born and raised in the Achaean city of Megalopolis. Polybius was a member of the Greek governing class, with firsthand opportunities to gain deep insight into military and political affairs. His political career was devoted largely towards maintaining the independence of the Achaean League . His father was a chief representative of the policy of neutrality during the war of the Romans against Perseus of Macedonia . He attracted the suspicion of the Romans, and as a result, his son Polybius was one of the 1000 noble Achaeans who in

2. Polybius
   writing herein © 20042008 as noted. Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS). S I D E B A R. Of Interest. About polybius Contact. Archives. (by category)  
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3. Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius : Rome At The End Of The Punic Wars [Histor
   English translation of Book 6 of polybius History.  
   http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/ANCIENT/polybius6.html
   
   Extractions: History , Book 6] [Thatcher Introduction]: ROME, with the end of the third Punic war, 146 B. C., had completely conquered the last of the civilized world. The best authority for this period of her history is Polybius. He was born in Arcadia, in 204 B. C., and died in 122 B. C. Polybius was an officer of the Achaean League, which sought by federating the Peloponnesus to make it strong enough to keep its independence against the Romans, but Rome was already too strong to be resisted, and arresting a thousand of the most influential members, sent them to Italy to await trial for conspiracy. Polybius had the good fortune, during seventeen years exile, to be allowed to live with the Scipios. He was present at the destructions of Carthage and Corinth, in 146 B. C., and did more than anyone else to get the Greeks to accept the inevitable Roman rule. Polybius is the most reliable, but not the most brilliant, of ancient historians. An Analysis of the Roman Government Rome And Carthage Compared An Analysis of the Roman Government In all these things that have now been mentioned, the people has no share. To those, therefore, who come to reside in Rome during the absence of the consuls, the government appears to be purely aristocratic. Many of the Greeks, especially, and of the foreign princes, are easily led into this persuasion: when they perceive that almost all the affairs, which they are forced to negotiate with the Romans, are determined by the senate.

4. Polybius
   polybius (c.203122 BCE) was born in Megalopolis, Arcadia, a Greek city that was an active member of the Achaean League, of which his father, Lycortas,  
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   Extractions: Authors born between 400 and 200 B CE Chuang Tzu Mencius Bhagavad Gita Epicurus ... Koheleth [ Polybius ] Click Up For A Summary Of Each Author Contents Introduction The Roman Conquest The Importance of a Constitution The Cycle of Six Forms of Government ... Source Introduction Polybius (c.203-122 BCE) was born in Megalopolis, Arcadia, a Greek city that was an active member of the Achaean League, of which his father, Lycortas, was at one time leader. Polybius advanced politically in the League and reached a position from which he, too, could have become its leader. However, after the Romans conquered Macedonia, they stabilized their control of the area by purging Greek cities of their leaders. One thousand of the principal Achaeans were deported to Italy. Polybius was fortunate in that L. Aemilius Paulus interceded for him and made him tutor of his sons Scipio and Fabius in Rome. A friendship developed that led Scipio to take Polybius with him as an advisor on political and military matters. Polybius was thus able to move in the highest circles in Rome and to witness major Roman military campaigns in the Mediterranean region. This gave him a unique opportunity as a Greek to analyze the successful expansion of Rome and to record the principles involved as a lesson for future statesmen, notably those in Greece, who he hoped would profit from his work. Polybius’s analysis is contained in his Histories—forty volumes describing the constitution of Rome and the sequence of Roman conquests. It has a strong political slant and represents an early attempt at a universal history rather than the history of a single people. Polybius set out to show how many different regions were merged by the Romans into a single whole.

5. Coinop.org /// Polybius (1981)
   Coinop.org /// Game polybius /// Summary We need information.  
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6. LacusCurtius • Polybius' Histories
   As with most ancient authors, not that much is known of polybius, and the Loeb edition s introductory material, by H. J. Edwards, is about as good as one  
   http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/home.html
   
   Extractions: Home As with most ancient authors, not that much is known of Polybius, and the Loeb edition's introductory material , by H. J. Edwards, is about as good as one can get. The principal manuscripts of the Histories are also treated there; but only very summarily. As almost always, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofing, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) I ran a first proofing pass immediately after entering each book, and also benefited from the sustained help of several other readers so that the text of all the books is quite good already I've now started final proofing: in the table of contents below, books whose text I believe to be completely errorfree are shown on blue backgrounds Since I put this English text Polybius online, a Greek text and a different English translation (Shuckburgh 1889) are now available

7. Polybius -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Britannica online encyclopedia article on polybius Greek statesman and historian who wrote of the rise of Rome to world prominence.  
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9060678/Polybius
   
   Extractions: document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Search Site: born c. BC , Megalopolis, Arcadia, Greece died c. Greek statesman and historian who wrote of the rise of Rome to world prominence. MLA Style: Polybius http://www.britannica.com/bps/topic/468317/Polybius APA Style: Polybius . (2008). In http://www.britannica.com/bps/topic/468317/Polybius Polybius Link to this article and share the full text with the readers of your Web site or blog-post.

8. Siege Of Syracuse (Polybius)
   by polybius (c. 200118 BC). BOOK VIII. 3. After Epicydes and Hippocrates had seized power in Syracuse, they managed to transfer the friendship and  
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   Extractions: U NIVERSAL H ISTORY by Polybius (c. 200-118 BC BOOK VIII T he strength of the defences of Syracuse is due to the fact that the city wall extends in a circle along high ground with steeply overhanging crags, which are by no means easy to climb, except at certain definite points, even if the approach is uncontested. Accordingly Archimedes had constructed the defences of the city in such a wayboth on the landward side and to repel any attack from the seathat there was no need for the defenders to busy themselves with improvisations; instead they would have everything ready to hand, and could respond to any attack by the enemy with a counter-move. For his part Appius Claudius Pulcher, who was equipped with penthouses and scaling-ladders, brought these into operation to attack the part of the wall which adjoins the Hexapyli gate to the east. Meanwhile Marcellus was attacking the quarter of Arcradina from the sea with sixty quinqueremes, each vessel being filled with archers, slingers and javelin-throwers, whose task was to drive the defenders from the battlements. Besides these vessels he had eight quinqueremes grouped in pairs. Each pair had had half of their oars removed, the starboard bank for the one and the port for the other, and on these sides the vessels were lashed together. They were then rowed by the remaining oars of their outer sides, and brought up to the walls the siege engines known as

9. Perseus Lookup Tool
   Plan of a Roman camp in the time of polybius. Image (8.61) polybius Reference article in A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed.  
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10. Polybius Home Page
    This is the biggest news to hit the polybius scene in some time. Someone registered sinnesloschen.com and placed a download link to a fully functional game  
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    Extractions: Perhaps you are aware of the concept of the "urban legend." You're on the Internet, of course you know what an urban legend is. Arcade games have one big one: the game Polybius. What's the game like? Coinop.org explains: "This game had a very limited release, one or two backwater arcades in a suburb of Portland. The history of this game is cloudy, there were all kinds of strange stories about how kids who played it got amnesia afterwards, couldn't remember their name or where they lived, etc. "The bizarre rumors about this game are that it was supposedly developed by some kind of weird military tech offshoot group, used some kind of proprietary behavior modification algorithms developed for the CIA or something, kids who played it woke up at night screaming, having horrible nightmares. "According to an operator who ran an arcade with one of these games, guys in black coats would come to collect "records" from the machines. They're not interested in quarters or anything, they just collected information about how the game was played. "The game was weird looking, kind of abstract, fast action with some puzzle elements, the kids who played it stopped playing games entirely, one of them became a big anti videogame crusader or something. We've contacted one person who met him, and he claims the machines disappeared after a month or so and no one ever heard about them again. "

11. Polybius I
    polybius was an ancient Greek writer who first proposed a method of substituting different twodigit numbers for each letter. The alphabet is written inside  
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    Extractions: Polybius was an ancient Greek writer who first proposed a method of substituting different two-digit numbers for each letter. The alphabet is written inside a 5 x 5 square matrix which has numbered rows and columns. Because x and z are not used very often they share a cell. You should be able to figure out which letter is intended by looking at the rest of the message. To encode a message using the Polybius Cipher, always put the column number first and then the row number. For example: D = 41 and Q = 24 To decode a message, find each letter represented by the two-digit number by reading across the top of the table and then down the side. For example: 54 = T and 21 = B

12. Polybius And The Founding Fathers: The Separation Of Powers
    polybius influence on the Founding Fathers and separation of powers.  
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13. Polybius Greek Historian Polybius
    polybius was an influential second century BC historian from Greece. polybius wrote about various governments and provided data on the Punic Wars from a  
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14. Harvard University Press: Histories, III : Books 5-8 By Polybius
    Histories, III Books 58 by polybius, published by Harvard University Press.  
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    Extractions: Polybius (born ca. 208 BCE ) of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea), served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favouring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was hostage in Rome where he became a friend of Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, and especially adopted Scipio Aemilianus whose campaigns he attended later. In late life he was trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans whom he admired; helped in the discussions which preceded the final war with Carthage; and, after 146, was entrusted by the Romans with details of administration in Greece. He died at the age of 82 after a fall from his horse. BCE . It describes the rise of Rome to the destruction of Carthage and the domination of Greece by Rome. It is a great work, accurate, thoughtful, largely impartial, based on research, full of insight into customs, institutions, geography, causes of events and character of people; it is a vital achievement of first rate importance, despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five of the forty books have reached us. Polybius's overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Polybius is in six volumes.

15. Polybius Theory: Getting To The Bottom Of The Urban Legend.
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16. The Command T.O.C.
    A former Military Officer who is sick of watching our Country being destroyed by the right wing nuts.  
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17. Good Deal Games - Classic Videogame Games ARTICLE - Videogame Urban Legend - Pol
    polybius was a puzzle game that had a very limited release, Reports indicate that children that played polybius could no longer remember common and  
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    Extractions: An urban legend is a tale of contemporary folklore that purports to be true and is often designed to elicit an emotional response. It is an assertion or set of assertions widely repeated from individual to individual, though its truth is unconfirmed. In most civilizations of the world, folklore has always existed in conjunction with, or in place of, recorded history. Where history is passionate with accurately writing down the details of events, traditional folklore is characterized by the "oral tradition," the dispatching of stories by word of mouth.

18. Polybius, U. Of Saskatchewan
    polybius 6.11.116.18.3 The Constitution of the Roman Republic polybius here sets forth a general analysis of the Roman constitution at the time of  
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    Extractions: [Polybius here sets forth a general analysis of the Roman constitution at the time of the Second Punic War.] I have already mentioned the three divisions of government in control of state affairs. Regarding their respective roles, everything was so equally and fittingly set out and administered, in all respects, that no one, not even any of the Romans themselves, could say for certain whether their system of government was aristocratic in its general nature, or democratic, or monarchical. And this uncertainty is only reasonable, for if we were to focus on the powers of the consuls it would appear to be altogether monarchical and kingly in nature. If, however, we were to focus on the powers of the Senate, it would appear to be a government under the control of an aristocracy. And yet if one were to look at the powers enjoyed by the People, it would seem plain that it was democratic in nature. As for the parts of government controlled by each element, they were at that time and (with a few exceptions) still are as follows: The Senate, first of all, has control of the treasury, for it has complete authority over all revenues and expenditures. For the quaestors are unable to disburse funds for any particular purpose without a decree from the Senate, the only exception being in the case of the consuls [

19. How To Use A Polybius Square - WikiHow
    wikiHow article about How to Use a polybius Square.  
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    Extractions: The How-to Manual That You Can Edit We need photographers. Can you help? ... Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Blogger Google Bookmarks Yahoo MyWeb ... Originally conceived by the Greek historian Polybius in the second century B.C., the Polybius square or Polybius checkerboard is one of the simplest tools in cryptography. You can use a Polybius square to encode a message that can then be deciphered only by someone who knows the arrangement of letters in the square . It's not secure enough to send military secrets , but it can be a fun way to learn about cryptography and to send secret messages to your friends Design a Polybius square (see image). A Polybius Square Create an equal number of numbered rows and columns (see image). To determine how many rows and columns to make, find the square number (also called a perfect square) that is nearest to the number of letters in your alphabet. Then take the square root of that square number this will be the number of rows and columns in your Polybius square. For example, in the English alphabet, there are 26 Write Different letters. The closest square number to 26 is 25, and the square root of 25 is 5, so you would need 5 columns and 5 rows, as shown in the image. Other languages use alphabets with more or fewer letters, so depending on the language used, the Polybius square may have more or fewer than 5 rows and columns.

20. Bitparade-Polybius - Articles
    Mar 2, 2007 According to the majority of the sources I ve come across, polybius was developed and released somewhere between 1979 and 1981.  
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