Readings in the classical historians

The first Greek historians: Hecataeus and Hellanicus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius

The late Roman republic: Julius Caesar, Nepos, Diodorus Siculus, Sallust

The early Roman principate: Augustus and after: Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Velleius Paterculus, Josephus, Saint Luke

The second century A.D.: Plutarch, Tacitius, Suetonius, Appian, Arrian

The late Roman empire: Dio Cassius, Eusebius, Ammianus Marcellinus.