In existographies, Polybius (c.200-118BC) (IQ:175|#275) (Cattell 1000:289) [RGM:N/A|1,350+] (Murray 4000:N/A) was a Greek historian and cryptographer, noted for []
Influence
Polybius was influential to: Diodorus, Livy, Cicero, Plutarch, Arrian, Niccolo Machiavelli, Jacques Thou, Paolo Sharpi, Charles Montesquieu, John Adams, Louis L’Amour, to name a few.
Quotes | On
The following are quotes on Polybius:
“Polybius is one of the few great minds that the turbid human species has managed to produce. Damage to his Histories is without question one of the gravest losses that we have suffered in our Greco-Roman heritage.”
— Jose Ortega (c.1940), Meditations On Hunting
External links
● Polybius – Wikipedia.
