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...ollowing his father (Lycortas) remaining neutral in Rome's war against the Macedonian Perseus: Polybius was one of one thousand prominent Achaeans taken to Rome. ...tinction who had himself led the Romans to victory in the third Macedonian war. Polybius was then tasked by Aemilius Paulus with the education of his chil

...264 – 146 BCE). It was during this time that Rome became involved in the Macedonian Wars, eventually absorbing the Greek city-states. Roman literature began ne ... him his life. Pharsalia, his most famous work, dealt with the Roman civil war of the 1st century BCE. His lesser known contemporary Statius wrote the twe