swap_horiz Herodotus Alternatives

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Thucydides

The Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta forms the subject of Thucydides' history, a Greek account concerned with...

Classical Political Ancient Greek

9.20 Excellent

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Tacitus

Tacitus wrote Roman history with a sharp interest in the relationship between imperial power and public freedom. His Ann...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

9.20 Excellent

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Plutarch

Plutarch was a Greek biographer and philosopher writing during the Roman Empire. His *Parallel Lives* meticulously compa...

Classical Ancient Biographical Greek

9.10 Excellent

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Livy

Livy, or Titus Livius, was a Roman historian who wrote Ab Urbe Condita Libri, a history of Rome from its legendary found...

Classical Narrative Ancient Roman

8.75 Great

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Mary Beard

Mary Beard is a British classicist and historian of ancient Rome. Her 2015 book SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome presents...

Classical Contemporary Public British

8.70 Great

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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is an American historian and author whose work focuses on Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States civ...

Narrative American Contemporary Biography

8.70 Great

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Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian, diplomat, and political thinker of the Renaissance. His major work, Sto...

Italian Narrative Renaissance Political

8.55 Great

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Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet (1798-1874) was a French historian whose writings connected political history with the experiences of ord...

Romantic French Narrative 19TH Century

8.55 Great

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R.G. Collingwood

R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian, and archaeologist whose work addressed the nature a...

Philosophical 20TH Century British Ancient

8.55 Great

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John Keegan

John Keegan (1934-2012) was a British military historian whose books examined how warfare was experienced and conducted...

Military Narrative 20TH Century British

8.55 Great

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Paul Cartledge

Paul Cartledge is a British classical historian specializing in ancient Greece, especially Sparta and the Greek world of...

Classical Contemporary Ancient Greece British

8.50 Great

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Josephus

Flavius Josephus (c. 37-c. 100 CE) was a Jewish priest, military commander, and historian who wrote in Greek under Roman...

Classical Ancient Religious Roman

8.45 Great

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Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor is a British historian known for narrative studies of twentieth-century conflict, especially the Second Wo...

Military Narrative Contemporary British

8.45 Great

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Robin Lane Fox

Robin Lane Fox is a British classicist and ancient historian whose work covers Alexander the Great, Greek and Roman reli...

Classical Contemporary Ancient Greece British

8.45 Great

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Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (1932-2021) was an American historian and classicist who specialized in ancient Greece and the history of t...

Classical American Ancient Greece 20TH Century

8.45 Great

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Peter Green

Peter Green was a British classical scholar, historian, and translator whose work focused on ancient Greece and the Hell...

Classical Ancient Greece 20TH Century British

8.40 Great

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Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman was an American historian and author who wrote narrative histories of World War I, medieval Europe, and...

Military Narrative American 20TH Century

8.35 Great

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Xenophon

Xenophon was an ancient Greek soldier, historian, and writer who was associated with Socrates. His Anabasis recounts the...

Military Classical Narrative Ancient

8.30 Great

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Dio Cassius

Dio Cassius, also known as Cassius Dio, was a Greek-speaking Roman senator and historian who lived during the late secon...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

8.05 Great

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Suetonius

Suetonius, formally Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, was a Roman biographer and writer active during the early second centur...

Classical Ancient Biographical Roman

7.85 Good