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Polybius developed an interest in horse riding and hunting, diversions which later helped to commend him to his Roman captors. This gave Polybius firsthand opportunities to gain an insight into military and political affairs. His father Lycortas was a prominent landowning politician and member of the governing class. Polybius was born around 200 BC in Megalopolis, Arcadia, which at that time was an active member of the Achaean League. Polybius believed that historians should only write about events when they could interview the people who took part in them, and invented the notion of having factual integrity when writing about history, and not being biased. His volume of books "The History" gives a detailed account of how Rome built up its large empire and included his eyewitness accounts of the Roman victory over Hannibal and the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC. He became a close friend of the Roman military commander Scipio Africanus, and accompanied him to Hispania and Africa. Polybius was given the opportunity to return to Macedonia in 152 BC he decided to stay as he was now converted to the allegiance of the Roman Empire. Polybius was deported to Rome, where Lucius Aemilius Paulus, employed him to teach and mentor his two sons. His opposition to Roman control of Macedonia resulted in him being imprisoned. He was the son of Lycortas, a Greek politician who became Cavalry Commander of the Achaean League. Polybius was born in Arcadia in about 200 BC. He is also renowned for his ideas of political balance in government, which were later used in Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws and in the drafting of the United States Constitution. In part, the work describes the rise of the Roman Republic and its gradual domination over Greece. 200–118 BC), Greek Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called The Histories covering in detail the period of 220–146 BC. Wounded Philopoemen by David d'Angers, 1837, Louvre For other uses, see Polybius (c200 BC-118 BC) (disambiguation).