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  • Structuring Roman History: the Roman Year and the Roman Consular Tradition

    This article is concerned with the shaping of the annual narrative in historical writers working in the Roman annalistic tradition and contests the view that Livy and his predecessors conformed to a standard pattern from which Tacitus departed. It is true that Livy in Books 21-45 employs a regular internal–external–internal...
  • Diodorus Siculus on Fate and Philip of Macedon

    Diodorus Siculus, the 1st century BCE historian, took great pride in precision of description but, even so, could not refrain from adding his own personal views and interpretations of historical events and persons. In the following passage, Diodorus describes the reign of King Philip II of Macedon (382-336...
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  • c. 108 AD
    The historian Arrian studies with Epictetus, records his teachings.
  • c. 380 AD - c. 418 AD
    Life time of Paulus Orosius.
  • 418 AD
    Completion of Orosius' famous work Seven Books of History Against the Pagans.