The Historians of Greece and Rome

achieved action Agesilaus Alcibiades ambition Anabasis ancient Annals argument army Arrian Athenian Athens Augustus barbarians battle Caesar career Carthaginians Catiline Cato cause cavalry CHAPTER character Cicero Claudius command concerned conquest consulship contemporary Cyrus death defeat Dionysius emperor empire enemy Ephorus episode example fact favour fight followed force fortune gods Greece Greek Greek world Hannibal Hecataeus Hellenica Hellenistic Herodotus historian historiography human important individual influence interest Jugurtha king later leadership less literary Livy Livy's Marius material military moral murder narrative nature Nero Nero's Nicias oligarchic passage Peloponnesian Pericles Persian political Polybius Polybius's popular portrait probably Punic purpose qualities readers reason reign republican rhetorical Roman history Rome Rome's Sallust says Scipio Senate shows Sicilian expedition Sicily Socrates soldiers Spartan speeches story style success survived Tacitus Tacitus's theme Theopompus Theramenes Thucydides Thucydides's Tiberius tradition troops Vitellius writing Xenophon Xerxes