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Born c.19 BCE
Died After 30
Subjects Of Study Augustus • Tiberius • Roman Empire
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Gaius Maecenas, marble bust; in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
Gaius Maecenas
Roman diplomat and patron
Ammianus Marcellinus
Roman historian
Dio Cassius
Roman historian
Livia Drusilla, marble bust; in the Vatican Museum
Livia Drusilla
Roman patrician
Publius Herennius Dexippus
Roman historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
J.B. Bury
British scholar
Barthold Georg Niebuhr, detail from an engraving
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
German historian
Flavio Biondo
Italian historian
Appian of Alexandria
Greek historian
Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
French historian
Ferdinand Lot
French historian
Ludwig Heinrich Friedländer
German historian
Athenodorus Cananites
Greek philosopher
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Constantine I
Constantine I
Roman emperor
Tiberius
Tiberius
Roman emperor
Hadrian
Hadrian
Roman emperor

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