Historiography
Historiography: the study of the way historians have tried to render account of their past.
Ancient Near East
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Clio, the Muse of historiography - Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions
- Behistun inscription
- Berossus
Greece
- Hecataeus of Miletus
- Herodotus of Halicarnassus
- Thucydides
- Xenophon
- Ctesias of Cnidus
- Ephorus of Cyme
- Theopompus of Chios
Hellenism
- Alexander the Great: his historians
- Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period (BCHP)
- Diadochi Chronicle (BCHP 3)
- Antiochus and Sin Chronicle (BCHP 5)
- Ruin of Esagila Chronicle (BCHP 6)
- Antiochus and India Chronicle (BCHP 7)
- Juniper Garden Chronicle (BCHP 8)
- End of Seleucus Chronicle (BCHP 9)
- Greek Community Chronicle (BCHP 14)
- Hieronymus of Cardia
- Berossus
- Timaeus of Tauromenion
- Polybius of Megalopolis
- Posidonius of Apamea
- Juba
- Diodorus of Sicily, Library of World History
Judaea
- 1 Maccabees
- 2 Maccabees
- Flavius Josephus
Roman Republic
- Sallust (all texts)
- C. Julius Caesar
- Livy (Titus Livius)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus (full text)
Roman Empire
- Velleius Paterculus (full text)
- Q. Curtius Rufus
- Pliny the Elder
- Flavius Josephus
- Tacitus
- Plutarch of Chaeronea (all biographies)
- Arrian of Nicomedia
- P. Annaeus Florus
- C. Suetonius Tranquillus (full text)
- Appian of Alexandria (full text)
- Polyaenus
- Lucian's How to write history
- Cassius Dio (brief) (full text)
- Philostratus
- Herodian (History of the Roman Empire)
- Eutropius (Short History)
- Historia Augusta
- Ammianus Marcellinus (full text)
- Jerome
- Procopius (Persian War, Vandal War, Gothic War; Secret History)
- Zosimus