A person who studies history.
So, what are historians like? What do they do? Surely we can make generalizations about historians per se.
Ancient Historians
- Herodotus, around 480-425 B.C.
- Thucydides, around 460-400 B.C.
- Xenophon
- Polybius, around 203-120 B.C.
- C. Julius Caesar, 100-44 B.C.
- Flavius Josephus
- Plutarch, A.D. 46?-120?
- Cornelius Tacitus, A.D. 56?-117?
- C. Suetonius Tranquillus, A.D. 69-140?
- Eusebius of Caesarea
- Bede
Medieval Historians
- Procopius, died about A.D. 565
- Gregory of Tours, A.D. 538-594
- Geoffroi de Villehardouin, around A.D. 1160-1212