swap_horiz Plutarch Alternatives

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Herodotus

Writing in the fifth century BC, Herodotus gave the Greco-Persian Wars a setting that extended far beyond the battlefiel...

Classical Narrative Ancient Greek

9.20 Excellent

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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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Robert Caro

Robert Caro is a prominent American historian specializing in twentieth-century political biographies. His meticulous re...

American 20TH Century Power Political

9.20 Excellent

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Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw is a prominent British historian specializing in Nazi Germany and twentieth-century warfare. His work focuse...

Contemporary British Biography Nazi Germany

9.20 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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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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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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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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Procopius

Procopius was a sixth-century Byzantine historian who served as secretary and adviser to the general Belisarius during t...

Military Classical Medieval Byzantine

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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Paul Veyne

Paul Veyne was a French historian and archaeologist whose scholarship focused on ancient Rome and the methods used to wr...

French Philosophical 20TH Century Ancient

8.30 Great

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Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889) was a French historian of the ancient world whose research emphasized the rel...

French Social 19TH Century Ancient

8.20 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

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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and author whose work examines warfare, agriculture,...

Military Classical American Contemporary

7.45 Good