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Who's the top Roman historians too read besides these guys
>Suetonius
>Livy
>Plutarch
>Dio
>Appian
>Velleius Paterculus

I'm going to start reading Roman history from the actual authors. this list here seems like a good place to start. Got any recommendations for me lit?

>> No.20011505

>>20011497
Tacitus

>> No.20011519

>>20011505
oh yeah i reading his wiki the other night. i forgot about him briefly. hes also got a book called the histories. like Herodotus. i wonder how many ancient books have that name

>> No.20011889

Eusebius
Josephus

>> No.20011932

>>20011497
Ammianus Marcellinus is my favourite author. The picture of the Late Roman Empire and with the sheer brutality of his writing is wonderful

>> No.20011990

>>20011889
>>20011932
alright cool. i'll check them out for sure. this marcellinus sounds interesting and hes from the late empire? that sounds good.

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20012002

>no one has mentioned Sallust
Sad

>> No.20012027

Don't forget Sallust, he's fantastic.

>> No.20012041

>>20012002
>>20012027
op here just looked him up. appears he was one was one of the best and his ancient peers compared him to thucydides.
never even heard of him before this thread. seems like its going to be interesting reads all around with this stuff

>> No.20012331

>>20011497
Caesar if you consider his war reports as history.

Related, who are the Greek historians? I know of Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, and Xenophon.

>> No.20012359

>>20012331
Diodorus Siculus was a Greek Roman who compiled a diverse library of histories from different era, places, and cultures.
Otherwise for more ancient sources, there are the logographers who were chroniclers before Herodotus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logographer_(history)

>> No.20014393

>>20012331
Oh yeah good choice caesars book. Didnt even think of that