Historians - Ancient Historians Geographers and Biographers

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

Timeline of the ancient 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.

These ancient historians are some of the main ancient sources on the history of the various periods of ancient Rome.

Suetonius wrote biographies in Latin.

Cassius Dio

Cornelius Nepos wrote biographies in Latin.

Eusebius the historian wrote an ecclesiastical history.

Manetho is called the father of Egyptian history.

Orosius was an ecclesiastical historian.

Learn about the historian Priscus of Panium.

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 was an ecclesiastical historian.

Sozomen was an ecclesiastical historian.

Theodoret was an ecclesiastical historian.

Zosimus, an historian, wrote about the fall of Rome.