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Classical Connections:Greek and Roman Historians

500 BC-400 ADGrowth of cultural

exchange 1200 BC-500 AD

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This PowerPoint is the overarching inquiry question and background information presented during the first lesson

WORLD HISTORY FOR US ALL SLIDE TEMPLATECONTENT WHOLLY WRITTEN BY MARK STEVENS

Acknowledgement

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Big History• The exchange

of ideas across cultural and language groups became a dominant feature of world history

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Our Inquiry Question• Why did

historians write history in the Classical World?

• Why did their audience love history?

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Archaic Greece

• Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the first Classical literature shared between Greeks and Romans

• 1000 BC

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Rome Founded

• Romulus and Remus found Rome on the banks of the Tiber

• History or myth?

• 753 BC

Persian Wars• Persian Empire

attacks Greece and fails

• 490-479 BC

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Herodotus• Historian of

the Persian Wars

• Istoria historia Meaning inquiries

• Lived c 484-425 BC

The Peloponnesian War

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• Greece’s ‘World War’

• 431 BC – 404 BC

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Thucydides• A war

‘worth noting’

• Wrote for posterity

• A general & eyewitness at the Pelponnesian War

• 460-395 BC

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Hannibal crosses the Alps• Rome and

Carthage fight for Mediterranean supremacy

• 218 BC

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Rome wins Mediterranean• Rome destroys

Carthage and conquers the Greeks

• 202-146 BC

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Polybius• Records the rise

of Rome and the conquest of the Mediterranean

• Wrote to educate and train leaders

• Lived 203-120 BC

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Catiline’s Conspiracy• The Roman

republic suffers a century of crisis and civil war

• Catiline’s conspiracy 64-63 BC

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Julius Caesar Assassinated• General,

politician, orator, historian and dictator

• Murdered 44 BC

C. Sallustius Crispus• Sallust• Roman senator

and historian• Ally of Caesar• Wrote in

retirement• History of

Catiline• Lived 86-34 BC

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Augustus Emperor

• Octavian ends 100 years of Civil War and becomes Imperator (great General) and Princeps (first man)

• 27 BC

Titus Livius (Livy)• Historian of the

Roman Republic from the foundation to the present time

• Wrote to record the greatness of Rome

• Lived 59 BC-17 AD

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Tiberius’ Terror

• Judicial murder of dozens of senators and leading Roman families

• 25-37 AD

Vesuvius Erupts• Pompeii and

Herculaneum buried under volcanic ash and pumice

• 79 AD

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Tacitus• Consul, Senator

and historian of the Roman Empire

• Wrote to record merit and expose evil

• Lived 56-117 AD

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Constantinople founded• Constantine

founds ‘Second Rome’ and never visits Rome

• Establishes Christianity

• 330 AD

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Julian the Apostate

• Julian renounces Christianity in favour of the traditional Gods

• 360-363 AD

Ammianus• Eye-witness and

historian of the Later Roman Empire

• 325/330–after 391

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The Sack of Rome• Alaric, King of

the Visigoths conquers the city of Rome and ends its poer in the western Empire

• 410 AD

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