Historians - Ancient Historians Geographers and Biographers

Ancient historians, geographers, and biographers. Information on the people who wrote ancient history, chronicles, and biographies.

Greek and Roman Historians
Index of ancient Greek and Roman historians, annalists, biographers, and other men in genres related to ancient history.

Ancient Greek and Roman Historians
Timeline of the ancient Greek and Roman historians.

Sima Qian
Read about the father of history -- Chinese history, that is.

Ancient Historians - Timeline of the Greek and Roman Historians
This timeline of the ancient historians allows you to see at a glance when they lived and whether they were primarily historians, geographers or biographers. Where there is supplemental material on this site, a link is shown.

Sources for Roman History
These ancient historians are some of the main ancient sources on the history of the various periods of ancient Rome.

Suetonius - Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Suetonius wrote biographies in Latin.

Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio

Cornelius Nepos
Cornelius Nepos wrote biographies in Latin.

Eusebius
Eusebius the historian wrote an ecclesiastical history.

Manetho - Priest and Historian of Ancient Egypt Manetho
Manetho is called the father of Egyptian history.

Orosius
Orosius was an ecclesiastical historian.

Priscus - Historian
Learn about the historian Priscus of Panium.

Procopius of Caesarea - Historian
Procopius was a Byzantine official and historian best known for his unofficial secret history, a gossipy account, presumably published posthumously. He also wrote a substantial historical record of the 6th century and a work on the Emperor Justinian's building projects.

Socrates Scholasticus
Socrates was an ecclesiastical historian.

Sozomen
Sozomen was an ecclesiastical historian.

Theodoret
Theodoret was an ecclesiastical historian.

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