Timeline of the Greek and Roman Historians

Greek and Roman Historians

5th Century B.C.

Herodotus (480-425 B.C.)
Greek historian

• Herodotus E-Texts
• Who Were the Greek Historians? Herodotus

Thucydides (460- ? B.C.)
Greek historian

• Thucydides E-Texts
• Thucydides
• Who Were the Greek Historians? Thucydides

4th Century B.C.

Xenophon (?-c.355 B.C.)
Greek general and historian

• Democracy Then And Now The Old Oligarch (Pseudo-Xenophon)
• Xenophon E-Texts
• Who Were the Greek Historians? Xenophon
• Aspasia of Miletus

1st Century B.C.

Cornelius Nepos (c.100-35 B.C.)
Biographer

Sallust (86-35 B.C.)
Historian and politician

• Basics on Sallust
• Conspiracy of Catiline

Strabo (63 B.C. - ?)
Greco-roman geographer and historian

• Strabo's Geography

Diodorus Siculus (fl. c.60-30 B.C.)
Sicilian Greek historian of the world centered on Rome

Titus Livius or Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17)
Roman historian

• Livy's Ab Urbe Condita
• Roman Historians I: Livy

Velleius Paterculus (c.19 B.C.-c.A.D. 30)
Roman historian

1st Century A.D.

Josephus (c.A.D. 37- c.100)
Jewish historian

Tacitus (A.D.54-119)
Roman historian

• Roman Historians
• Tacitus E-Texts

Plutarch (c.A.D.45-c.125)
Greco-roman moralist and historian

• Plutarch E-Texts
• Plutarch Profile
• Who Were the Greek Historians? Plutarch

Suetonius (c.71-c.135)
Roman biographer

2nd Century A.D.

Dio Cassius (c.150-235)
Roman historian

4th Century A.D.

Ammianus Marcellinus (4th C)
Historian and biographer

Eutropius (c. 320-c.390?)
Roman historian

Eunapius (A.D.349-c.414)
Byzantine historian