Ancient historians have many complaints about this, stating that his judgments were variable and sometimes did not follow the law.

Ancient historians state that Caligula began falsely accusing, fining and even killing individuals for the purpose of seizing their estates.

In addition, despite his major impact on Ancient Egyptian architecture and field of medicine, even ancient historians failed to write about him, which adds to his mystery.

In Ancient Greece, several philosophers and historians analysed and described classical republicanism.

Ancient Greek historians variously placed the Trojan War in the 12th, 13th, or 14th centuries BC: Eratosthenes to 1184 BC, Herodotus to 1250 BC, Duris of Samos to 1334 BC.

Category: Ancient Athenian historians

Category: Ancient Athenian historians

A number of historians believe that a Persian victory would have hamstrung the development of Ancient Greece, and by extension western civilization, and this has led them to claim that Salamis is one of the most significant battles in human history.

The settlement was known in the Celtic times and to Ancient Greek historians as Kelea ; findings suggest that Celts coined Noric money in the region.

Ancient historians had no doubt that Romulus gave his name to the city.

Ancient historians give as a reason for Tiberius ' retirement to Capri his inability to endure her any longer.

Category: Ancient Athenian historians

With the knowledge transferred to the Ancient Greeks, historians believe that the Greeks originated pie pastry.

Ancient historians were still debating the specific origins of the Sabines.

Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh ( also called Νίνου πόλις " city of Ninus " in Greek ), Ancient capital of Assyria, although he does not seem to represent any one personage known to modern history, and is more likely a conflation of several real and / or fictional figures of antiquity, as seen to the Greeks through the mists of time.

Category: Ancient Athenian historians

Category: Ancient Greek historians

Ancient and modern historians provided different estimations for the number of ships and troops under the command of Basiliscus, as well as for the expenses of the expedition.

Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of classical Athenian historians, playwrights, and philosophers.

The term itself was coined by nineteenth century historians and the distinction between the Old Kingdom and the Early Dynastic Period is not one which would have been recognized by Ancient Egyptians.

This has helped historians research the history of Ancient Egyptian trade.

The history of Thracian warfare spans from c. 10th century BC up to the 1st century AD in the region defined by Ancient Greek and Latin historians as Thrace.

There is some dispute over whether the triple jump was contested in ancient Greece: while some historians claim that a contest of three jumps occurred at Ancient Games, others such as Stephen G. Miller believe this is incorrect, suggesting that the belief stems from a mythologised account of Phayllus of Croton having jumped 55 ancient feet ( around 16. 3 m ).

As with all dates in Ancient Egypt, the actual dates of his reign are unclear, and various historians claim different dates, with 1294 BC – 1279 BC and 1290 BC to 1279 BC being the most commonly used by scholars today.

Originally, climes were defined in Ancient Greece to describe the weather depending upon a location's latitude.

Ancient Egyptian records describe the Lycians as allies of the Hittites.

Ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy in 150 AD believed that the Earth was the center of the solar system but still used the terms retrograde and prograde to describe the movement of the planets in relation to the stars.

In the early 19th century, the ghost discovers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and influences the writer to add a second section to " Kubla Khan " and alter parts of " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner " to describe how to correct the problem that destroyed the landing craft in the distant past.

Ancient writers describe the possible use of something similar to an Archimedes screw as a process of irrigating the terraced gardens.

Ancient accounts, which differ to some degree, describe the structure as being built with iron tie bars to which brass plates were fixed to form the skin.

These Ancient authors describe the building's appearance and gave dimensions.

Ancient sources describe the Aventine Triad's temple as built in the Greek style.

In European manuscripts dating from the 13th century CE, " Ruthenia " is used to describe lands of the Ancient Rus, ie, parts of Eastern Europe.

These late Ancient Egyptian temple texts describe a goddess who represented divine assistance and protective guardianship.

The first six books treated the mythic history of the non-Hellenic and Hellenic tribes to the destruction of Troy and are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of Ancient Egypt ( book I ), of Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia ( II ), of North Africa ( III ), and of Greece and Europe ( IV – VI ).

Ancient scripts in sanskrit from Shiva Puran describe his meditational forms.

The numerous references to the Old Kingdom kings as pharaohs in this article stems from the ubiquitous use of the term " pharaoh " to describe any and all Ancient Egyptian Kings.

Hieroglyphs also describe " walking statues " being used in Ancient Egyptian religious dramas.

Ancient treatises also describe the connection of the origin of the swaras, or notes, to the sounds of animals and birds and man's effort to simulate these sounds through a keen sense of observation and perception.

Ancient documents describe the use of such crystal sunglasses by judges in ancient Chinese courts to conceal their facial expressions while questioning witnesses.

Ancient sources describe Alexander's professed love for Roxana.

Folk artists performing at a funeral Ancient Tamil works, such as the Cilappatikaram, describe a system of music, and a 7th-century Pallava inscription at Kudimiyamalai contains one of the earliest surviving examples of Indian music in notation.

Alexithymia from the Ancient Greek words λέξις ( lexis ) and θυμός ( thumos ) modified by an alpha-privative — literally " without words for emotions "— is a term to describe a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions in oneself.

Rhodopechys means " rosy forearm " in Ancient Greek and as a term goes all the way back to Homer, who used it often as an epithet to describe women and goddesses.

The term has been used to describe certain Scandinavian and South Slavic languages, Ancient Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, Japanese, Korean, and Shanghainese.

Kalos kagathos ( Ancient Greek ), of which kalokagathia () is the derived noun, is a phrase used by classical Greek writers to describe an ideal of personal conduct, especially in a military context.

Although Ancient Egyptian architecture predates Greek and Roman antiquity, historians frequently use the Greek term peristyle to describe similar, earlier structures in ancient Egyptian palace architecture and in Levantine houses known as liwan houses.

The term " gadfly " ( Ancient Greek: μύωψ, mýops ) was used by Plato in the Apology to describe Socrates ' relationship of uncomfortable goad to the Athenian political scene, which he compared to a slow and dimwitted horse.