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Born c.330 • Antioch • Syria
Died 395 • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study Roman Empire
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
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Dio Cassius
Roman historian
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Velleius Paterculus
Roman historian
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Publius Herennius Dexippus
Roman historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
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J.B. Bury
British scholar
Barthold Georg Niebuhr, detail from an engraving
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
German historian
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Flavio Biondo
Italian historian
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Appian of Alexandria
Greek historian
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Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
French historian
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Ferdinand Lot
French historian
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Ludwig Heinrich Friedländer
German historian
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Constantine I
Constantine I
Roman emperor
Marble bust of Roman emperor Tiberius showing a youthful male face with short, wavy hair and a neutral expression.
Tiberius
Roman emperor
Hadrian
Hadrian
Roman emperor
Diocletian
Diocletian
Roman emperor
Theodosius I
Theodosius I
Roman emperor
Bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius with his right arm raised, seated on a horse, at Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, Italy.
Marcus Aurelius
emperor of Rome

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