He is most famous for his Histories, which chronicles the rise of the Roman Republic to its Empire days. ... Polybius' goal in his writings was to prove the theory of historical causation, which is still a tenet of the study of history today. ... Yet there is a complete contradiction to the previous statement when Polybius claims, "These facts confirm the proposition which I put forth at the beginning of my history, namely that the supremacy of the Romans did not come about, as certain Greek writers have supposed, either by chance or without the victors knowing what they were doing. ...

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