# List of Ancient Historians 1.1-92

Greek and Roman Historians, List of Ancient Historians, Lines 1.1-1.92. Latin.

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I. HISTORIANS OF THE GREEK WORLD
*Herodotus (c.480-c.429)
The Histories
Hellanicus of Lesbos (5th cent.)
Greek logographer.
The Priestesses of Hera at Argos
History of Attica (from 683 to the end of the Peloponnesian War)
Troica and Persica (histories of Troy and Persia.)
*Thucydides (c.460-c.395)
The Peloponnesian War (479-411)
Hellenica
*Xenophon (c.430-c.354)
Hellenica
Covered 411-362 in 7 books
Theopompus (c. 380 - ?)
Hellenica
Covered 411-362 in 12 books
Philippica (16 books) - history of Philip and Alexander
Cratippus (4th cent.)
Covered 411 - ?
Oxyrhynchus historian
Covered 411 - ?
Alexander the Great - “Great men history”
Callisthenes (360-327)
Biography of Alexander the Great
Clitarchus (4th cent.)
History of Alexander the Great
Anaximenes (4th cent..)
History of Greece
History of Philip and Alexander
Chares of Mytilene (4th cent.)
History in 10 books
Many others: * Arrian , *Pompeius Trogus , * Curtius Rufus
“Great men histories” continued: Agathocles of Syracuse, Attalus of Pergamon, Ptolemy IV, Antiochus the Great, Hannibal, Tigranes of Armenia, Pompey.
Sikelika
Antiochus of Syracuse (5th cent.)
Beginnings - 424 B.C.
Philistus of Syracuse (c.432-356)
1205-363 in 11 books
Timaeus of Tauronmenius (356-260)
Beginnings to his own time
Universal Histories
Ephorus (c.405-330 B.C.)
Universal history from Dorian conquest to 340 in 30 books
Diyllus the Athenian (3rd cent.)
Universal history in 26 books covering 357-297
Psaon of Plataea (3rd cent.)
Continuation of Diyllus' work in 30 books
Duris of Samos (3rd cent.)
History of Greece from 370 to at least 281 B.C.
Biography of Agathocles
History of Samos
Phylarchus (3rd cent.)
History of 272-220 in 28 books
*Polybius (c.200 - c.118 B.C.)
History in 40 books covering 220 BC to 146 B.C.
Poseidonius of Apamea (135-51 B.C.)
History covering 144 B.C. to 82 B.C. (?)
Timagenes of Alexandria (1st Century B.C.)
Deeds of Augustus
On Kings (?)
*Diodorus Siculus (d. after 21 B.C.)
Universal history in 40 books, ending with Caesar’s Gallic Wars.

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