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Flourished c.101 - c.200
Subjects Of Study Third Servile War • Roman Empire • imperialism
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Bust of Vespasian, found at Ostia; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Vespasian
Roman emperor
Trajan
Trajan
Roman emperor
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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Ammianus Marcellinus
Roman historian
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Dio Cassius
Roman historian
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Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
French historian
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Velleius Paterculus
Roman historian
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Ferdinand Lot
French historian
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Publius Herennius Dexippus
Roman historian
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Ludwig Heinrich Friedländer
German historian
Marble statue of Polybius seated with one arm raised, draped in classical robes, against a blue sky in Vienna, Austria. The base is inscribed with the name Polybius.
Polybius
Greek historian
Herodes Atticus, marble bust by an unknown artist; in the Louvre, Paris
Herodes Atticus
Greek orator and author
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Athenodorus Cananites
Greek philosopher
Constantine I
Constantine I
Roman emperor

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