Polybius (Sather Classical Lectures)
"A tour de force."   --Times Literary Supplement"Students of Polybius and Roman imperialism will read with profit the  learned and judicious analyses which result from many years of Polybian study by  the leading authority on the subject . . . a general wide-ranging analysis of  the work of the Greek historian who chronicled and interpreted the great  imperial adventure undertaken by Rome in the third and second centuries B.C."  --A.H. Bernstein, Classical World"The best general book on this author that exists in any language."  --P.S. Derow, Phoenix"The qualities which one has come to associate with Professor Walbank's  work are all present here: learning, lucidity, balanced judgement and  imaginative insight. He comes as near as anyone is likely to do to explaining  what is ultimately an enigmatic figure."  --D.E.W. Wormell, Hermathena"[A] superb synthesis, which the Sather Professorship has stimulated  Walbank to produce. . . . Walbank's 'Sathers' must rank as one of the most  distinguished volumes in that eminent series."  --R.M. Errington, Journal of Roman  Studies