Classical Connections: Greek and Roman Historians 500 BC-400 AD Growth of cultural exchange 1200 BC-500 AD

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

Big History The exchange of ideas across cultural and language groups became a dominant feature of world history

Our Inquiry Question Why did historians write history in the Classical World? Why did their audience love history?

Archaic Greece Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the first Classical literature shared between Greeks and Romans 1000 BC

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

Herodotus Historian of the Persian Wars Istoria historia Meaning inquiries Lived c 484-425 BC

The Peloponnesian War Greece’s ‘World War’ 431 BC – 404 BC

Thucydides A war ‘worth noting’ Wrote for posterity A general & eyewitness at the Pelponnesian War 460-395 BC

Hannibal crosses the Alps Rome and Carthage fight for Mediterranean supremacy 218 BC

Rome wins Mediterranean Rome destroys Carthage and conquers the Greeks 202-146 BC

Polybius Records the rise of Rome and the conquest of the Mediterranean Wrote to educate and train leaders Lived 203-120 BC

Catiline’s Conspiracy The Roman republic suffers a century of crisis and civil war Catiline’s conspiracy 64-63 BC

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

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

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

Tacitus Consul, Senator and historian of the Roman Empire Wrote to record merit and expose evil Lived 56-117 AD

Constantinople founded Constantine founds ‘Second Rome’ and never visits Rome Establishes Christianity 330 AD

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

The Sack of Rome Alaric, King of the Visigoths conquers the city of Rome and ends its poer in the western Empire 410 AD

Acknowledgement World History for Us All slide template Content wholly written by Mark Stevens