Hellenistic World

F.W. Walbank, Emeritus Professor in the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the British Academy, read Classics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. At Liverpool he was, from 1951 to 1977, Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology. He has also held Visiting Professorships at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California at Berkeley, and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His published works include Philip V of Macedon, Polybius, A Historical Commentary on Polybius (3 vols.), The Awful Revolution and, with N.G.L. Hammond, A History of Macedonia, Vol. III: 336-167 BC’. He is also Joint Editor of Vols. VII and VIII of the Cambridge Ancient History.

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