ancient historian
Classical era scholar
An ancient historian is a scholar who studies the ancient world—typically Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other civilizations of antiquity.
The term can also mean a historian from ancient times, like Herodotus or Thucydides: Tacitus remains one of the most quoted ancient historians.
Context usually clarifies which sense is meant.
- HerodotusAncient Greek historiographer
- PlutarchGreek biographer, Roman era
- classical antiquityGreco-Roman historical period
- archaeologyStudy of physical remnants
- paleographyStudy of ancient handwriting
Thucydides · numismatics · dead languages · Tacitus · Classical Greece · Livy · fall of Rome · oral traditions · textual analysis · Roman Empire · governance systems · Xenophon · Polybius · social hierarchies · Bronze Age · Persian Empire · cultural exchanges · art and architecture
- scholarsscholar, professors, professor, researcher, researchers
- historianshistorians, chronicler, chroniclers, annalist, annalists
- Near East scholars
- writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, journalist
- ClassicistsMary Beard
ancient historianjournalist
News profession practitioner
futurist · modernist · medieval historian · oral historian · political scientist
ancient historianoral historian
Documents living memory
investigative journalist · ethnographer · social scientist · data analyst · embedded reporter
ancient historianliving witness
eyewitness · embedded journalist · memoirist · diarist · autobiographer
ancient, historian, history, historic, historical, historically, prehistory, prehistoric, anciently