Ancient Roman Historic Writings

Below is a list of historic writings from Ancient Rome!

• Polybius (200 - 118 BC)

  • The Histories

• Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BC)

  • On the African War

  • On the Alexandrine War

  • On the Hispanic War

  • The Civil War

  • The Gallic Wars

• Dionysius of Halicarnassus (60 - 7 BC)

  • Roman Antiquities

• Livy (58 BC - 17 AD)

  • History of Rome or Ad Urbe Condita

• Vellius Paterculus (19 BC - 31 AD)

  • Roman History

• Pliny the Elder (23 - 79 AD)

  • Natural History

• Josephus (37 - 100 AD)

  • The Jewish War

• Quintus Curtius Rufus (1st Century AD)

  • Histories of Alexander the Great

• Plutarch (49 - 119 AD)

  • Moralia

  • Parallel Lives

• Tacitus (56 - 120 AD)

  • Agricola

  • The Annals

  • Dialogus Oratoribus

  • Germania

  • The Histories

• Pliny The Younger (61 - 113 AD)

  • Epistulae or Letters

  • Panegyricus Traiani

• Strabo (64 BC - 24 AD)

  • Geography

• Suetonius (69 - 122 AD)

  • On Famous Men

  • The Twelve Caesars

• Arrian (86 - 160 AD)

  • The Anabasis of Alexander

  • The Indica

  • Periplus of the Euxine Sea

• Appian (95 - 165 AD)

  • The Civil Wars

  • The Foreign Wars

  • Roman History

• Ptolemy (100 - 170 AD)

  • Almagest

  • Geography

  • Tetrabiblos

• Pausanius (110 - 180 AD)

  • Guide to Greece

• Florus (Early Roman Empire)

  • Epitome of Roman History

• Cassius Dio (165 - 235 AD)

  • Roman History

• Herodian of Antioch (170 - 240 AD)

  • History of the Roman Empire

• Aurelius Victor (320 - 390 AD)

  • De Caesaribus

  • Epitome de Caesaribus

  • Origo Gentis Romanae

  • De Viris Illustribus Romae

• Unknown (4th Century AD, Disputed)

  • Historia Augusta

Attributions

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