swap_horiz Thucydides Alternatives

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Herodotus

Herodotus was a Greek writer living in the 5th century BC. He is considered the “Father of History” for his detailed acc...

Classical Narrative Ancient Greek

9.2 Excellent

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Tacitus

Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian living during the early Imperial period. He is notable for his critical and ofte...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

9.2 Excellent

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French diplomat and historian renowned for his insightful analysis of American democracy in...

French American 19TH Century Political

9.2 Excellent

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Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a prominent German 19th-century historian renowned for his rigorous approach to historical researc...

German 19TH Century Archival Political

9.2 Excellent

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner is a leading American historian specializing in the Reconstruction era and the history of slavery. His work s...

American 20TH Century Political Reconstruction

9.2 Excellent

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Robert Caro

Robert Caro is a prominent American historian specializing in twentieth-century political biographies. His meticulous re...

American 20TH Century Power Political

9.2 Excellent

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Plutarch

Plutarch was a Greek biographer and philosopher writing during the Roman Empire. His *Parallel Lives* meticulously compa...

Classical Ancient Biographical Greek

9.1 Excellent

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Tony Judt

Tony Judt was a British-American historian whose research and writing addressed modern European political and intellectu...

European 20TH Century Political British American

9.0 Excellent

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, historian, and political writer of the Renaissance. His major works inclu...

Italian Renaissance Political Florence

8.9 Great

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Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian of political and intellectual life who taught at Columbia University. His b...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Political

8.9 Great

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Gordon Wood

Gordon S. Wood is an American historian of the Revolutionary era and the early United States. His scholarship explores r...

American 20TH Century Political Revolutionary

8.9 Great

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Livy

Livy, or Titus Livius, was a Roman historian who wrote Ab Urbe Condita Libri, a history of Rome from its legendary found...

Classical Narrative Ancient Roman

8.8 Great

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Mary Beard

Mary Beard is a British classicist and historian of ancient Rome. Her 2015 book SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome presents...

Classical Contemporary Public British

8.7 Great

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Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder is an American historian whose research focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, nationalism, political vio...

American Contemporary Political Holocaust

8.6 Great

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Josephus

Flavius Josephus (c. 37-c. 100 CE) was a Jewish priest, military commander, and historian who wrote in Greek under Roman...

Classical Ancient Religious Roman

8.5 Great

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Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (1932-2021) was an American historian and classicist who specialized in ancient Greece and the history of t...

Classical American Ancient Greece 20TH Century

8.5 Great

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Procopius

Procopius was a sixth-century Byzantine historian who served as secretary and adviser to the general Belisarius during t...

Military Classical Medieval Byzantine

8.4 Great

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Xenophon

Xenophon was an ancient Greek soldier, historian, and writer who was associated with Socrates. His Anabasis recounts the...

Military Classical Narrative Ancient

8.3 Great

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Dio Cassius

Dio Cassius, also known as Cassius Dio, was a Greek-speaking Roman senator and historian who lived during the late secon...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

8.1 Great

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Suetonius

Suetonius, formally Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, was a Roman biographer and writer active during the early second centur...

Classical Ancient Biographical Roman

7.9 Good