Historian

There are 51 items in Historian:

Plutarch

Plutarch of Chaeronea (46-c.122): influential Greek philosopher and author, well known for his biographies and his moral treatises. Bust, believed to…

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Polybius

Polybius of Megalopolis (c.200-c.118): Greek historian, author of an important World History that describes the rise of Rome.The Changing Structure of History …

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Procopius

Procopius of Caesarea (c..495 - after 562): Byzantine courtier and author.Life Portrait of a Roman man, c.540 CE Born in Caesarea in…

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Suetonius

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.71-c.135): Roman scholar and official, best-known as the author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars.Life Roman official, first quarter…

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Tacitus

Tacitus (c.55-c.120): Roman historian, author of a/o the Histories and the Annals.Early Career Roman official, first quarter of the second century Tacitus…

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Theopompus

Theopompus of Chios (378-ca.320): Greek historian, one of the representatives of the "rhetorical history".According to a brief Byzantine biography, Theopompus, the son of Damasistratus, was born in the year that corresponds with our 378/377. This was the age in which…

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Xenophon

Xenophon (c.430-c.354): Athenian soldier and historian, author of the Anabasis and Hellenica. He is one of the best-known and most widely read of all Greek authors. …

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Zosimus

Zosimus (Greek Ζώσιμος): Early Byzantine, pagan author of a history of the Roman Empire, published in the first quarter of the sixth century CE.Life …

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