People who are interested in figuring out what actually happened rely heavily on religious writings. Maybe hicks in Arkansas do. Scholars don't. I doubt you've read any of these ACTUAL ancient historians.
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Historians and chroniclers of the Ancient World
[ edit] Herodotus, (484 – c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, "Father of History", wrote the Histories that established Western historiography Thucydides, (460 – c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War Berossus, (early 3rd century BC), Babylonian historian Xenophon, (431 – c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC — c. 283 BC), General of Alexander the Great, founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty Manetho (3rd century BC), Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) who lived during the Ptolemaic era Timaeus of Tauromenium, (c. 345 – c. 250 BC), Greek history Quintus Fabius Pictor, (c. 254 BC – ?), Roman history Gaius Acilius, ( fl. 155 BC), Roman history Polybius, (203 – c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek) Sima Qian, (c. 145 – c. 86 BC), Chinese history, compiled the Records of the Grand Historian Julius Caesar, (100 – c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars Diodorus of Sicily, (1st century BC), Greek history Sallust, (86 – 34 BC) Liu Xiang (scholar), (79 – 8 BC) (Chinese Han Dynasty), Chinese history Dionysius of Halicarnassus, (c. 60 – after 7 BC), Roman history Livy, (c. 59 BC – c. 17 AD), Roman history Marcus Velleius Paterculus, (c. 19 BC – c. 31 AD), Roman history Ban Biao, (3 – 54), (Chinese Han Dynasty), started the Book of Han that was completed by his son and daughter Quintus Curtius Rufus, (c. 60–70), Greek history Ban Gu, (32 – 92), (Chinese Han Dynasty) Flavius Josephus, (37 – 100), Jewish history Pamphile of Epidaurus, (female historian active during the reign of Nero, r. 54–68), Greek history Ban Zhao, (45 – 116), (Chinese Han Dynasty, China's first female historian) Thallus, (early 2nd century AD), Roman history Plutarch, (c. 46 – 120), would not have counted himself as an historian, but is a useful source because of his Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56 – c. 120), early Roman Empire Suetonius, (75 – 160), Roman emperors up to Flavian dynasty Appian, (c. 95 – c. 165), Roman history Arrian, (c. 92–175), Greek history Lucius Ampelius, (3rd century AD?), Roman history Dio Cassius, (c. 160 – after 229), Roman history Herodian, (c. 170 – c. 240), Roman history Chen Shou, (233–297), (Chinese Jin Dynasty), compiled the Records of the Three Kingdoms Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 275 – c. 339), Early Christian Ammianus Marcellinus, (c. 325 – c. 391), Roman history Fa-Hien, (c. 337 – c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and historian Rufinus of Aquileia, (c. 340 – 410), Early Christian Philostorgius, (368 – c. 439), Early Christian Socrates of Constantinople, (c. 380 – ?), Early Christian Theodoret, (c. 393 – c. 457), Early Christian Fan Ye (historian), (398 – 445), Chinese history, compiled the Book of Later Han Priscus, (5th century), Byzantine history Sozomen (c. 400 – c. 450), Early Christian Salvian, (c. 400/405 – c. 493), Early Christian |
