Ancient Roman History

Below is a list of historic writings from Ancient Rome!

• Polybius

  • The Histories (c. 167 - 146 BCE)

• Diodorus Siculus

  • Bibliotheca Historica (c. 60 - 30 BCE)

• Julius Caesar

  • The Gallic Wars (58 - 50 BCE)

  • The Civil War (49 - 48 BCE)

  • On the Alexandrine War (c. 47 BCE)

  • On the African War (c. 46 BCE)

  • On the Hispanic War (c. 45 BCE)

• Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  • Roman Antiquities (c. 30 - 7 BCE)

• Livy

  • History of Rome or Ad Urbe Condita (c. 27 BCE - 17 CE)

• Strabo

  • Geography (c. 20 - 23 CE)

• Vellius Paterculus

  • Roman History (c. 29 - 31 CE)

• Quintus Curtius Rufus

  • Histories of Alexander the Great (Mid 1st Century CE)

• Josephus

  • The Jewish War (c. 75 - 79 CE)

• Pliny the Elder

  • Natural History (c. 77 - 79 CE)

• Plutarch

  • Parallel Lives (c. 96 - 120 CE)

• Pliny The Younger

  • Epistulae or Letters (c. 96 - 112 CE)

  • Panegyricus Traiani (100 CE)

• Suetonius

  • On Famous Men (c. 97 - 101 CE)

  • The Twelve Caesars (c. 119 - 122 CE)

• Tacitus

  • Agricola (98 CE)

  • Germania (98 CE)

  • Dialogus Oratoribus (c. 100 CE)

  • The Histories (105 - 110 CE)

  • The Annals (110 - 120 CE)

• Florus

  • Epitome of Roman History (110 - 120 CE)

• Arrian

  • Periplus of the Euxine Sea (c. 130 CE)

  • The Anabasis of Alexander (c. 130 - 140 CE)

  • The Indica (c. 130 - 140 CE)

• Appian

  • The Foreign Wars (c. 145 - 160 CE)

  • The Civil Wars (c. 145 - 165 CE)

  • Roman Histories (c. 145 - 165 CE)

• Ptolemy

  • Almagest (c. 150 CE)

  • Geography (c. 150 - 170 CE)

  • Tetrabiblos (c. 150 CE)

• Pausanius

  • Guide to Greece (Mid 2nd Century CE)

• Cassius Dio

  • Roman History (c. 190 - 230 CE)

• Herodian of Antioch

  • History of the Roman Empire (c. 238 - 260 CE)

• Unknown (4th Century AD, Disputed)

  • Historia Augusta (c. 294 - 398 CE)

• Eusebius of Caesarea

  • • Chronicon (c. 303 CE)

    • Church History (c. 311 - 313 CE)

    • Life of Constantine (c. 337 - 339 CE)

    • Onomasticon (c. 325 CE)

• Lactantius

  • • De Mortibus Persecutorum (c. 315 - 318 CE)

• Aurelius Victor

  • De Caesaribus (c. 360 - 365 CE)

  • Epitome de Caesaribus (c. 360 - 365 CE)

  • Origo Gentis Romanae (c. 360 CE)

  • De Viris Illustribus Romae (c. 365 - 370 CE)

• Eutropius

  • • Breviarium Historiae Romanae (c. 369 CE)

• Ammianus Marcellinus

  • Roman History (c. 390 - 400 CE)

• Anonymous

  • Origin of Emperor Constantine (c. 390 - 420 CE)