Historians - Resources on historians of ancient Greece
Timeline of the Greek and Roman Historians
Dates, names, and features on this site about the Greek and Roman historians, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Strabo, Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch
Plutarch's Lives - Contents of Plutarch's Lives
The contents of Plutarch's Lives.
Ancient Historians - Who Were the Ancient Historians?
One of Greece's contributions to the world was the development of the genre of history. History emerged from other styles of non-fiction writing, particularly travel writing. There were also ancient biographers and chroniclers. Here are some of the major ancient writers of ancient history or on closely related topics.
Plutarch
A profile of Plutarch, author of the Parallel Lives.
Xenophon
Xenophon wrote about the death of Socrates as well as a history of Greece, an Economics, the Anabasis, and more.
Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus wrote a universal history from the Trojan War to his own time.
Thucydides
Historian of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides is considered the greatest of the ancient Greek historians.
Who Were the Greek Historians?
From your Guide. Major works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Diodorus Siculus, and Plutarch.
Thucydides' Peloponnesian War
E-text of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War and Pericles' Funeral Oration.
Cassius Dio
Introduction to the Greek historian Cassius Dio who was born between A.D. 155 and 164.
The Text of Cassius Dio
From Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius pages, the Text of Cassius Dio based on Loeb editions from 1914-1927.
Ancient History Sourcebook
Loeb editions that are now in the public domain. Some are already online at Perseus, but many are waiting for someone to put them online.