Historians

Jordanes
Jordanes, himself a Goth, abridged a lost history of the Goths by Cassiodorus.

Roman Historians: Tacitus
Historian from a class whose power was waning.

Roman Historians I: Livy
An Augustan annalist who put morality first.

Livy's Ab Urbe Condita
The structure and organization of the 142 book annals of Rome.

Who Were The Ancient Greek Historians?
Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Diodorus Siculus, and Plutarch provide a wealth of information about their times.

Edward Gibbon
Etexts of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.