Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

* Adrian Goldsworthy ( born 1969 ), British historian and author who writes mostly about ancient Roman history

He kills 28 people in the Trojan War, and his career during that war is retold by Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus ( c. 64 BC – AD 17 ) in his Fabulae.

During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.

The Roman historian Tacitus states that Agrippina had an ‘ impressive record as wife and mother ’.

Ammianus Marcellinus ( 325 / 330 – after 391 ) was a fourth-century Roman historian.

* Claudius Aelianus, Roman teacher and historian of the 3rd century, who wrote in Greek

The Roman historian Livy, writing in ca.

The Roman historian Tacitus ( ca.

Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of this period, took a particular interest in Britain as Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law and the subject of his first book, served there three times.

Tacitus writes that the Praetorian Prefect, Macro, smothered Tiberius with a pillow to hasten Caligula's accession, much to the joy of the Roman people, while Suetonius writes that Caligula may have carried out the killing, though this is not recorded by any other ancient historian.

Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.

Narseh moved south into Roman Mesopotamia in 297, where he inflicted a severe defeat on Galerius in the region between Carrhae ( Harran, Turkey ) and Callinicum ( Ar-Raqqah, Syria ) ( and thus, the historian Fergus Millar notes, probably somewhere on the Balikh River ).

Einhard's literary model was the classical work of the Roman historian Suetonius, the Lives of the Caesars, though it is important to stress that the work is very much Einhard's own, that is to say he adapts the models and sources for his own purposes.

Eusebius ( c. AD 263 – 339 ) ( also called Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius Pamphili ) was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist.

Whether and how far the council was confirmed by Pope John VIII is also a matter of dispute: The council was held in the presence of papal legates, who approved of the proceedings, Roman Catholic historian Fr.

Then an Athenian militia, led by the historian Dexippus, pushed the invaders to the north where they were intercepted by the Roman army under Gallienus.

The Roman historian Tacitus reports that Prasutagus had left a will leaving half his kingdom to Nero in the hope that the remainder would be left untouched.

The most important Roman historian of the classical world was Tacitus ( late 1st and early 2nd century AD ).

The foremost Roman historian, he wrote an extremely influential account on Rome in the first century, the Annals.

Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.

Often called " the first modern historian ", the English scholar Edward Gibbon wrote his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 – 1788 ).

Larger-scale persecutions followed at the hands of the authorities of the Roman Empire, beginning with the year 64, when, as reported by the Roman historian Tacitus, the Emperor Nero blamed them for that year's great Fire of Rome.

* Appian writes Ρωμαικα, known in English as the Roman History, in which he includes the history of each nation conquered up until the moment of its conquest.

* Appian, Roman History

* Appian, “ The Civil Wars, Book I ” in Appian ’ s Roman History, Translated by Horace White.

The Appian Way ( Latin and Italian: Via Appia ) was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic.

* 312 BC – One of the earliest paved roads, the Appian Way, is built ; the Romans eventually built over 50, 000 miles of paved Roman roads

* The Roman censor, Appius Claudius Caecus, a patrician, enters office and begins construction of the Appian Way ( the Via Appia ) between Rome and Capua.

* Appian: Roman Civil Wars

Appian, Dio Cassius, and Plutarch each report that city was once again destroyed in the Roman Civil Wars, circa 42 BC, by Brutus, but Appian notes that it was rebuilt under Mark Antony.

Gaius Asinius Pollio ( sometimes wrongly called Pollius or Philo ) ( Teate Marrucinorum-currently Chieti in Abruzzi 75 BC – AD 4 ) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch.

In Roman mythology, Appias was one of the Crinaeae, a naiad who lived in the Appian Well outside the temple to Venus Genitrix in the Roman Forum.

The Roman catacombs, of which there are forty in the suburbs, were built along the consular roads out of Rome, such as the Appian way, the via Ostiense, the via Labicana, the via Tiburtina, and the via Nomentana.

There is no doubt that Tauromenium continued to form a part of the kingdom of Syracuse until the death of Hieron, and that it only passed under the government of Rome when the whole island of Sicily was reduced to a Roman province ; but we have scarcely any account of the part it took during the Second Punic War, though it would appear, from a hint in Appian, that it submitted to Marcellus on favorable terms ; and it is probable that it was on that occasion it obtained the peculiarly favored position it enjoyed under the Roman dominion.

Alternatively, on the other side of the Apennines, highway 7 ( the old Roman Appian Way ) followed along the west coast but south of Rome ran into the Pontine Marshes which the Germans had flooded.

During the retreat, the Neapolitan Reggimento di Lucania fortified an old Roman villa, the Fortino di San Andrea, located about a mile north of Itri, where a pass carries the Appian Way over the Auruncian Mountains.

) Appian describes the use of the olive-branch as a gesture of peace by the enemies of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus in the Numantine War and by Hasdrubal of Carthage.

The first Roman milestones appeared on the Appian way.

* Appian Roman History, book XII: Mithridateios

* Appian, Roman Civil Wars.

According to Appian, Viriatus was one of the few who escaped when Galba, the Roman consul, massacred the flos iuventutis, the flower of the young Lusitanian warriors, in 150 BC.

However, it is certain that Appian was born around the year AD 95 in Alexandria, the capital of Roman Egypt.

Since his parents were Roman citizens capable of paying for their son ’ s education, it can be determined that Appian belonged to the wealthy upper classes.