Greek historiography

Greek historiography

Historiography in Ancient and Byzantine Greece.

;Classical Greece
* Herodotus
* Hellanicus of Lesbos
* Ctesias
* Callisthenes
* Thucydides
* Xenophon
* "Hellenica Oxyrhynchia"

;Hellenistic Greece
* Hieronymus of Cardia
* Timaeus (historian)

;Roman Greece
* Apollodorus
* Alexander Polyhistor
* Posidonius
* Nicolaus of Damascus
* Plutarch
* Diodorus Siculus
* Dionysius of Halicarnassus
*Appian

;Byzantine Empire
*Chronicon (Eusebius)
*Chronicon (Jerome)
*Agathias

See also

*Roman historiography
*List of Graeco-Roman geographers


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