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Title: Awaiting Polybius
Review: I can not use Walbank's three volumes until I get the six Loeb Classics volumes of Polybius to read and study. This is forthcoming.I think I should tell you, however, that I have wanted my own copies of Walbank's work for over thirty years and finally made the purchase. I am very interested in the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage and Polybius is the main historian of these events. The Roman Livy also wrote about this period, but he was a Johnny-come-lately and never had the chance to interview participants in these events like Polybius did. Polybius also accompanied the Roman army during the Third and final Punic War in 146 B.C. and witnessed the destruction of Carthage and the enslavement of its population.I also have the Sather lecture volume by Walbank about Polybius.The Walbank three volumes arrived ahead of the projected date of delivery in even better condition than the vendor said. I recommend him without reservation.
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