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Polybius was a Greek historian, who lived from around 200 BC to around 118 BC. He wrote a history of the rise of the Roman Empire while being held as a political prisoner in Italy, where he had been deported after Rome's victory over Perseus, the last king of Macedon, in 168 BC.