Arrian

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1. Plutarch

   Author of The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives, The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin Classics, L286), The Life of Alexander the Great (Modern Library Classics)

2. Livy

   Author of The Early History of Rome : Books I-V of the History of Rome from its Foundation (Penguin Classics), Ab urbe condita, libri XXI-XXX, History of Rome, books 6-10

3. Cassius Dio

   Author of The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, Roman History, Roman History

4. Diodorus Siculus

   Author of Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Volume I, Books 1-2.34, Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Volume X, Books 19.66-20, Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Volume VII, Books 15.20-16.65

5. Polybius

   Author of The Rise of the Roman Empire, The Histories: Volume I, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library), The Histories: Volume IV, Books 9-15 (Loeb Classical Library)

6. Xenophon

   Author of The Persian Expedition, A History of My Times, The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika

7. Julius Caesar

   Author of Commentaries on the Gallic War, The Civil War, De Bello Alexandrino; De Bello Africo; De Bello Hispaniensi

8. Tacitus

   Author of The Annals, The Agricola and Germania, The Histories

9. Procopius

   Author of The Secret History, Procopius in Seven Volumes. IV: History of the Wars, Books VI.16-VII.35, Procopius in Seven Volumes. III: History of the Wars, Books V-VI.15

10. Appian

    Author of The Civil Wars, Roman History, Appian, Vol. III: Roman History, Civil Wars Books 1-3.26

11. Quintus Curtius

    Author of The History of Alexander, Quintus Curtius: History of Alexander, Volume II, Books 6-10 (Loeb Classical Library No. 369), Quintus Curtius: History of Alexander, Volume I, Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library No. 368)

12. Arrian

    Author of The Campaigns of Alexander, Arrian: Anabasis of Alexander, Books I-IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 236), Arrian: Anabasis of Alexander, Books 5-7. Indica. (Loeb Classical Library No. 269)

13. Ammianus Marcellinus

    Author of The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378 (Penguin Classics), Ammianus Marcellinus: Roman History, Volume I, Books 14-19 (Loeb Classical Library No. 300), Ammianus Marcellinus: Roman History, Volume III, Books 27-31. Excerpta Valesiana (Loeb Classical Library No. 331)

14. Pausanias

    Author of Guide to Greece, Vol. 1: Central Greece, Guide to Greece, Vol. 2: Southern Greece

15. Thucydides

    Author of The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Landmark Thucydides

16. Herodotus

    Author of The Histories (Penguin Classics), The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, The Persian Wars

17. Suetonius

    Author of The Twelve Caesars

18. Claudius Aelianus

    Author of Historical miscellany, On the Characteristics of Animals. Books 12-17, On the Characteristics of Animals. Books 6-11

19. Sallust

    Author of The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Catiline

20. Donald Kagan

    Author of The Peloponnesian War, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (Cornell Paperbacks), The Archidamian War (Cornell Paperbacks)