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.

* 366 – Procopius, Roman usurper ( b. 326 )

The writings of Procopius are the primary source of information for the rule of the Roman emperor Justinian.

* 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.

* Procopius, usurper of the Roman Empire ( approximate date )

* May 27 – Procopius, Roman usurper

Procopius ( usurper ) | Procopius ( Roman usurper )

According to the historian Procopius, Majorian, " who surpassed in every virtue all who have ever been emperors of the Romans ", wanted to know personally the military readiness of the Vandals and how the local populations would have reacted to the Roman invasion.

Procopius Anthemius ( c. 420 – 11 July 472 ) was Western Roman Emperor from 467 to 472.

In 366, a battle fought near Thyateira saw the army of Roman emperor Valens defeat Roman usurper Procopius.

Although Gerontius committed suicide in Hispania, and Athaulf the Visigoth later suppressed the revolt of Jovinus, Roman rule never returned to Britain after the death of Constantine III: as the historian Procopius later explained, " from that time onwards it remained under rule of tyrants.

Procopius ( c. 325 / 326 – 27 May 366 ) was a Roman usurper against Valens, and member of the Constantinian dynasty.

His first wife was probably Artemisia, having married secondly the dowager Empress Faustina, while the Roman general of the 5th century Procopius and his son, the Emperor Anthemius, were among his descendants, the first being the son of his son Procopius.

The modest Roman town of Urvinum Mataurense (" the little city on the river Mataurus ") became an important strategic stronghold in the Gothic Wars of the 6th century, captured in 538 from the Ostrogoths by the Byzantine general Belisarius, and frequently mentioned by the historian Procopius.

The first reported fool-for-Christ in Russia was St. Procopius ( Prokopiy ), who came from the lands of the Holy Roman Empire to Novgorod, then moved to Ustyug, pretending to be a fool and leading an ascetic way of life ( slept naked on church-porches, prayed throughout the whole night, received food only from poor people ).

Procopius reports that Kaleb ( whom he calls Hellesthaeus ) with the help of Justin, the Roman Emperor, collected a fleet and crossed from Africa to Yemen, where he defeated Dhū Nuwas about the year 520 or 525 ( 1. 20 ).

During 5th and 6th centuries, several writers ( Marcellinus Comes, Orosius, John Lydus, Isidore of Seville, Procopius of Caesarea ) used the same ethnonym Getae to name populations invading the Eastern Roman Empire ( Goths, Gepids, Kutrigurs, Slavs ).

Procopius records that Abraha was once the slave of a Roman merchant at Adulis, while al-Tabari says that he was related to the Axumite royal family.

Toumanoff observes that the name Vakhtang has no Classical equivalent and infers that the king ’ s sobriquet Gorgasal — given to Vakhtang because of the shape of the helmet he wore — was rendered by the 6th-century Roman historian Procopius as Gurgenes ().

Notwithstanding its enormous costs, in the Eastern Roman Empire the service was still fully functioning in the first half of the sixth century, when the historian Procopius charges Emperor Justinian with the dismantlement of most of its sections, with the exception of the route leading to the Persian border ( Secret History 30. 1 – 11 ).

Procopius provides one of the few direct descriptions of the Roman post that allows us to estimate the average rate of travel overland.