Word: antiochus
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Dates: during 1908-1908
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...interested in political science, for he is the one historian who realized the importance and influence of the political institutions of a country. He takes for the starting point in his history the period of the three great wars, namely--Rome and Carthage, the Leagues in Greece, and Antiochus and Ptolemy. His forty books, of which five are completely extant, are the first books of universal, connected history, treated in a chronological order. As Thucydides was an artist, so was Polybius a teacher. The historical value of the writings of Polybius cannot be too highly valued because of their accuracy...