Classical Connections: Greek and Roman Historians 500 BC-400 AD

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 BC

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

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

Rome wins Mediterranean
Rome destroys Carthage and conquers the Greeks BC

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

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

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