1. Herodotus, Histories, 1.5.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1.5.3. These are the stories of the Persians and the Phoenicians. For my part, I shall not say that this or that story is true, but I shall identify the one who I myself know did the Greeks unjust deeds, and thus proceed with my history, and speak of small and great cities of men alike. |
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2. Polybius, Histories, 1.4.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
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3. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.3.3-1.3.4 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
| 1.3.3. But Rome rules every country that is not inaccessible or uninhabited, and she is mistress of every sea, not only of that which lies inside the Pillars of Hercules but also of the Ocean, except that part of it which is not navigable; she is the first and the only State recorded in all time that ever made the risings and the settings of the sun the boundaries of her dominion. Nor has her supremacy been of short duration, but more lasting than that of any other commonwealth or kingdom. 1.3.4. For from the very beginning, immediately after her founding, she began to draw to herself the neighbouring nations, which were both numerous and warlike, and continually advanced, subjugating every rival. And it is now seven hundred and forty-five years from her foundation down to the consulship of Claudius Nero, consul for the second time, and of Calpurnius Piso, who were chosen in the one hundred and ninety-third Olympiad. |
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4. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, On Thucydides, 5.5, 23.7 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
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5. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Letter To Pompeius Geminus, 3.2-3.7, 3.9, 3.11-3.12, 3.15-3.18, 3.21 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
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6. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 16.187 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 16.187. As for ourselves, who come of a family nearly allied to the Asamonean kings, and on that account have an honorable place, which is the priesthood, we think it indecent to say any thing that is false about them, and accordingly we have described their actions after an unblemished and upright manner. And although we reverence many of Herod’s posterity, who still reign, yet do we pay a greater regard to truth than to them, and this though it sometimes happens that we incur their displeasure by so doing. |
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7. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 1.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 1.1. 1. Whereas the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the greatest of all those, not only that have been in our times, but, in a manner, of those that ever were heard of; both of those wherein cities have fought against cities, or nations against nations; while some men who were not concerned in the affairs themselves have gotten together vain and contradictory stories by hearsay, and have written them down after a sophistical manner; 1.1. For that it was a seditious temper of our own that destroyed it; and that they were the tyrants among the Jews who brought the Roman power upon us, who unwillingly attacked us, and occasioned the burning of our holy temple; Titus Caesar, who destroyed it, is himself a witness, who, during the entire war, pitied the people who were kept under by the seditious, and did often voluntarily delay the taking of the city, and allowed time to the siege, in order to let the authors have opportunity for repentance. 1.1. But still he was not able to exclude Antiochus, for he burnt the towers, and filled up the trenches, and marched on with his army. And as he looked upon taking his revenge on Alexander, for endeavoring to stop him, as a thing of less consequence, he marched directly against the Arabians |
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8. Josephus Flavius, Against Apion, 1.55 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 1.55. and as for the History of the War, I wrote it as having been an actor myself in many of its transactions, an eyewitness in the greatest part of the rest, and was not unacquainted with any thing whatsoever that was either said or done in it. |
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9. Josephus Flavius, Life, 358 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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