From his first publication, Aratos of Sicyon (1933), to his death in 2008, F. W. Walbank established himself as one of the leading ancient historians of the last century. His many publications -- not least his three-volume commentary on the Greek historian of Roman power, Polybius -- transformed the study both of Polybius and of the history of the Hellenistic world. Polybius and his World honors Walbank's achievement by bringing together a number of leading scholars in the fields of Hellenistic historiography and history.
The twenty chapters, including an introduction by the volume's...