“…34 Just as important, Polybius identifies an emerging historical tradition at a pivotal moment in the historiographic corpus. The Hellenistic historians, including Polybius at the tail end, serve as a key nexus point for the canonical histories �� in historiographical intertextuality without overt citation are given by O'Gorman 2009, Martin and Woodman 1989, Clauss 1997, and Moles 1998 of Greece and Rome. Aside from Polybius and Livy, Felix Jacoby's landmark compilation, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (FGrHist), has made amply clear the high frequency with which the now fragmentary Hellenistic historians recur in Roman imperial ethnographers, geographers, historians, and encyclopedists such as Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Strabo, and Arrian-including such historians as Megasthenes (BNJ 715), Nearchus (BNJ 133), Onesicritus (BNJ 134), Berossus of Babylon (BNJ 680), and Daimachus (BNJ 716), to name only a few.…”