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 ...

Nabis, the last king of Sparta, is often described as both a king and a tyrant, depending on the perspective and sources.

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 ...

Founded in 1975, Population and Development Review seeks to advance knowledge of the interrelationships between population and socioeconomic development and provides a forum for discussion of related ...

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 ...