Occupation Index | Historians Timeline
5th Century B.C. Greek Historians:
Herodotus (480-425 B.C.)
Greek historian
Thucydides (460- ? B.C.)
Greek historian with military experience in the Peloponnesian War
4th Century B.C. Greek Historians:
Xenophon (?-c.355 B.C.)
Greek general and historian
2nd Century B.C. Greek Historians:
Polybius (c.200-c.118 B.C.)
Greek Historian of Rome from 220-146 B.C. and Achaean League Hipparch
1st Century B.C. Roman and Greek Historians:
Cornelius Nepos (c.100-35 B.C.)
Biographer
Sallust (86-35 B.C.)
Historian and politician
Strabo (63 B.C. - ?)
Greco-roman geographer and historian
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
Velleius Paterculus (c.19 B.C.-c.A.D. 30)
Roman historian
1st Century A.D. Roman and Greek Historians:
Josephus (c.A.D. 37- c.100)
Jewish historian
Tacitus (A.D.54-119)
Roman historian
Plutarch (c.A.D.45-c.125)
Greco-roman moralist and historian
Suetonius (c.71-c.135)
Roman biographer
2nd Century A.D. Roman and Greek Historians:
Dio Cassius (c.150-235)
Roman historian
4th Century A.D. Roman and Greek Historians:
Ammianus Marcellinus (4th C)
Historian and biographer
Eutropius (c. 320-c.390?)
Roman historian
Eunapius (A.D.349-c.414)
Byzantine historian
