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Timeline of the Greek and Roman Historians

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Herodotus

Herodotus

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5th Century B.C. Greek Historians:

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

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

4th Century B.C. Greek Historians:

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

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

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