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His grandfather served in the war against Sertorius with Pompey, through whose influence be obtained the Roman citizenship; hence the name Pompeius, adopted as a token of gratitude to his benefactor. His father served under Julius Caesar in the capacity of secretary and interpreter.

Trogus himself seems to have been a man of encyclopaedic knowledge. He wrote, after Aristotle and Theophrastus, books on the natural history of animals and plants, frequently quoted by the elder Pliny. But his principal work was Historiae Philippicae in forty-four books, so called because the Macedonian empire founded by Philip is the central theme of the narrative.

This was a general history of the world, or rather of those portions of it which came under the sway of Alexander and his successors. It began with Ninus, the founder of NinevehThis article is about the ancient Middle Eastern city of Nineveh. The name is also applied to a place in Indiana, USA: see Nineveh, Indiana. Nineveh (Assyrian city of "Ninua") was an important city in ancient Assyria, lying within the area of the modern c, and ended at about the same point as Livy (AD 9). The last event recorded by the epitomator JustinJustin or M. Junianus Justinus or Justinus Frontinus 3rd century Roman historian. Of his personal history nothing is known. He is the author of Historiarum Philippicarum libri XLIV a work described by himself in his preface as a collection of the most imp is the recovery of the Roman standards captured by the ParthiaTrajan's Column The Parthian Empire was the dominating force on the Iranian plateau beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 190 BCE and 224 CE. Origins The Parthians were an illiterate nomadic people, thns ( 20 BCCenturies: 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades: 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s Years: 25 BC 24 BC 23 BC 22 BC 21 BC 20 BC 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC 15 BC Births Gaius Caesar, grandson of Augustus Caesar Deaths).

He left untouched Roman history up to the time when Greece and the East came into contact with Rome, possibly because Livy had sufficiently treated it. The work was based upon the writings of Greek historians, such as TheopompusTheopompus a Greek historian and rhetorician, was born at Chios about 380 BC. In early youth he seems to have spent some time at Athens, along with his father, who had been exiled on account of his Laconian sympathies. Here he became a pupil of Isocrates, (also the author of a Philippica), EphorusEphorus (c. 400- 330 BC), of Cyme in Aeolia, in Asia Minor, was a Greek historian. Together with the historian Theopompus he was a pupil of Isocrates, in whose school he attended two courses of rhetoric. But he does not seem to have made much progress in, TimaeusTimaeus (c. 250 BC), Greek historian, was born at Tauromenium in Sicily. Driven out by Agathocles, he migrated to Athens, where be studied rhetoric under a pupil of Isocrates and lived for fifty years. During the reign of Hiero II he returned to Sicily (p, PolybiusPolybius ca 203 BC 120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world, especially the rise of the Roman Republic, which he attributed to Roman fitness and the excellence of Roman civic and military institutions. He is most valued for his account of. Chiefly on the ground that such a work was beyond the powers of a Roman, it is generally agreed that Trogus did not gather together the information from the leading Greek historians for himself, but that it was already combined into a single book by some Greek (very probably Timagenes of Alexandria ).

His idea of history was more severe and less rhetorical than that of Sallust and Livy, whom he blamed for putting elaborate speeches into the mouths of the characters of whom they wrote. Of his great work, we possess only the epitome by Justin, the prologi or summaries of the 44 books, and fragments in Vopiscus , Jerome, Augustine and other writers. But even in its present mutilated state it is often an important authority for the ancient history of the East. Ethnographical and geographical excursuses are a special feature of the work.

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