Table of Contents

Introduction / 1. Greece Fifth to Third Centuries BCE / 2. Herodotus / 3. Thucydides / 4. Xenophon / 5. Diodorus Siculus / 6. Other Early Greek Historians / 7. The Rise of Rome / 8. Roman Historiography / 9. Quintus Ennius / 10. Cato the Elder / 11. Polybius / 12. From Republic to Empire / 13. Gaius Julius Caesar / 14. Sallust / 15. Livy / 16. Augustus / 17. Josephus / 18. Tacitus / 19. Dio Cassius / 20. Arrian / 21. Men of Letters: Cicero and Pliny the Younger / 22. The Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius / 23. The Later Roman Empire / 24. Ammianus Marcellinus / 25. Tertullian / 26. Eusebius of Caesarea / 27. Other Roman and Early Christian Works / 28. A Case Study: Alexander the Great / 29. Conclusions / Bibliography / Index.

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An accessible and concise overview of Greek and Roman history writing.

About the Author

Susan Sorek is a research affiliate at the Open University, UK. Her volume The Jews Against Rome was published by Continuum in 2008.