Word: polybius
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Finally, Professor Lipset's view of historical cycles is, of course, none too eccentric a view of history: Plato, Polybius, Machiavelli, Vico, Spengler form an impressive pedigree. He need not even be too cautious in predicting when the next conservative cycle will dawn. After all, Plato-boldly and rather sensibly, as it would be well-nigh difficult and unnecessary to prove him wrong-calculated that history returned upon itself in 72,000 years! From internal evidence there is no doubt that for Lipset the periodicity of this circular movement by which the history of the states returned, over and over...
...rare blend of soldier-scholar who commands five foreign languages, Taylor sprinkled his testimony with grace notes such as a quote from Greece's Third Century B.C. historian Polybius ("It is not the purpose of war to annihilate those who provoke it, but to cause them to mend their ways.") and a comparison of Communist expansionism with Islam's "flaming sword" policy...
...elephants and an army of some 45,000 over the Alps into northern Italy to attack Rome in 218 B.C., experts have speculated on what route he took across the mountains. Unlike Caesar, Hannibal penned no commentary, and experts have had to make do with the later writings of Polybius and Livy...
...Bengal" as an administrator. In those days a man's best qualification for the Indian Civil Service consisted mainly in being able to answer such questions as: Write succinctly and in Latin biographical notices of the following personages, stating the date and place of birth of each: Theramenes, Polybius, Poseidonius, Arcesilaus, Parmenides, Eratosthenes...
Poseidonius, who closely followed Polybius, is becoming more and more recognized as one of the great historians. He was a stole and a close friend of Pompey, with whom he travelled extensively. Besides being a historian, Poseidonius was a philosopher, a geographer, an astronomer, and a mathematician, and played an important part in the political life of his times...