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Question: Favorite Roman historian?
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Ammianus		  
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Cassius Dio		  
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Caesar		  
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Josephus		  
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Livy		  
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Polybius		  
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Sallust		  
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Tacitus		  
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Other		  
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« on: July 13, 2012, 12:31:37 PM »
Including Caesar might be a bit of a stretch, but his works seem to occupy a half-way point between memoirs and history. As you can see from Josephus and Polybius, I'm also using a pretty broad definition of "Roman."

There's an "Other" option for you Velleius fans and the like, but don't cheat and choose someone like Pliny the Elder.

Of the eight listed, I would rank Tacitus at the very top, with Josephus at the very end.
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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2012, 01:23:18 PM »
Livy, mainly because he was one of the few on that list that wasn't ridiculously gullible.

BTW, listing Polybius but not Plutarch?
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2012, 03:41:25 PM »
I've only read a bit of Livy, so I have to vote for him.  I came into this thread all ready to say "Edward Gibbons!"
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« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2012, 05:56:24 PM »
Livy defeats Josephus, narrowly.
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« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2012, 09:15:56 PM »
Quote from: The Mikado on July 17, 2012, 01:23:18 PM
Livy, mainly because he was one of the few on that list that wasn't ridiculously gullible.

BTW, listing Polybius but not Plutarch?

Well, I left off Plutarch for the same reason I left off Suetonius. They're really more biographers than historians.
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