The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

The history of Rome is one which is well known and established. It is the people who originally wrote it down, and their reasons for doing so, that may be less than familiar. The way in which history is recorded, no matter whose history, is important for any period that comes later. Human history has been organized into categories in order to assist with a modern understanding of the way in which people, places and things have changed over the years. This also means that academics, and historians in particular, are able to differentiate between times and places, looking at...