F. W. Walbank

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Frank William Walbank, CBE (born December 10, 1909, Bingley, West Yorkshire) is a contemporary scholar of ancient history, particularly the history of Polybius.

Walbank studied Classics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and from 1951 to 1977 was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool; he is currently professor emeritus at Liverpool and an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse. He held visiting positions at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California at Berkeley, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His published works include Philip V of Macedon (1940), The Awful Revolution (1946; 1969), Polybius (1972; 1990), A Historical Commentary on Polybius, 3 vols. (1957, 1967, 1979), The Hellenistic World (1981) and, with N.G.L. Hammond, A History of Macedonia, Vol. III: 336–167 BC. He also served as the joint editor of volumes 7 and 8 of the Cambridge Ancient History.

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