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+Great Historians+

Herodotus (c. 484 - c. 425 BCE)

Father of History, chronicler of the Greco-Persian Wars.

Thucydides (c. 460 - c. 400 BCE)

Athenian historian of the Peloponnesian War.

Sima Qian (c. 145 - c. 86 BCE)

Author of Records of the Grand Historian, chronicling ancient China.

Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE)

Roman historian of Ab Urbe Condita, Rome's legendary history.

Pliny the Elder (23 - 79 CE)

Scholar of Naturalis Historia, covering nature, art, and science.

Josephus (37 - c. 100 CE)

Jewish historian, author of The Jewish War.

Suetonius (c. 69 - c. 122 CE)

Biographer of The Twelve Caesars, profiling Rome's rulers.

Procopius (c. 500 - c. 565 CE)

Byzantine historian, author of The Secret History.

Al-Tabari (839 - 923 CE)

Persian historian, author of History of Prophets and Kings.

Al-Masudi (c. 896 - 956 CE)

Arab geographer, author of The Meadows of Gold.

Anna Komnene (1083 - 1153 CE)

Byzantine chronicler of The Alexiad.

Matthew Paris (c. 1200 - 1259 CE)

English monk, author of Chronica Majora.

Ibn Khaldun (1332 - 1406 CE)

Historian and sociologist, author of Muqaddimah.

Jean Froissart (c. 1337 - c. 1405 CE)

French chronicler, author of Chronicles.

Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472 CE)

Renaissance polymath, author of De Re Aedificatoria.

Flavio Biondo (1392 - 1463 CE)

Italian historian of Roma Instaurata.

William Camden (1551 - 1623 CE)

Author of Britannia, an early British history.

Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794 CE)

Author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Fernand Braudel (1902 - 1985 CE)

French historian of The Mediterranean World.

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