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Notable ideas. Anacyclosis. Polybius ( / pəˈlɪbiəs /; Greek: Πολύβιος, Polýbios; c. 200 – c. 118 BC) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work The Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC.
Polybius is a fictitious 1981 arcade game from an urban legend. The legend describes the game as part of a government-run crowdsourced psychology experiment based in Portland, Oregon . Gameplay supposedly produced intense psychoactive and addictive effects in the player.
Polybius' Histories begin in the year 264 BC and end in 146 BC (Polybius was born around 200 BC and died around 117 BC). He is primarily concerned with the 53 years in which Ancient Rome became a dominant world power.
May 22, 2015 · Many more believe the whole thing was a hoax, while others say it never existed at all. Documentarians Todd Luoto, Jon Frechette and Dylan Reiff are seeking the truth behind the mythical arcade ...
The legend of Polybius is, as legends tend to be, rather amorphous, and there are many different versions of the tale. The main ingredient is the game itself, a seemingly-innocent cabinet that popped up and hides sinister motives, from subliminal messages to more supernatural activities.
Polybius (born c. 200 bce, Megalopolis, Arcadia, Greece—died c. 118) was a Greek statesman and historian who wrote of the rise of Rome to world prominence.
Jul 22, 2012 · However, since Polybius' Histories covers just 118 years out of those 350 (from 264- 146 BC) there is a slight problem in calling him our best guide because he doesn't so much as cover even half of the Hellenistic period; a happy medium would be to call him the best guide that we have to the period which he covers.
Nov 8, 2013 · Polybius of Megalopolis was the son of Lycortas, the friend and partisan of Philopoemen, who had served the Achaean league in several capacities: as ambassador to Rome in B.C. 189, xx Birth of Polybius. along with Diophanes, on the question of the war with Sparta, 4 and to Ptolemy Epiphanes in B.C. 186, 5 and finally as Strategus in ...
Jul 11, 2012 · Polybius (l. c. 208-125 BCE) was, whilst a Greek historian, a Roman historian, in that his work dealt with explaining how Rome came to be so great. Like the three Classical Greek Historians, Polybius...
Polybius is the most important source for the rise of Roman imperialism during the Middle Roman Republic (c. 265–c. 150 BCE). By ancient historiographical standards, his work is of the highest quality, and in this regard he is often compared with Thucydides.
