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Quintus Fabius Pictor (c. 254 BC-?) was one of the earliest Roman historians. A member of the Fabii gens, he was the grandson of Gaius Fabius Pictor, a painter ("pictor" in Latin). He was a senator who fought against the Gauls in 225 BC, and against Carthage in the Second Punic War. He was appointed to travel to the oracle at Delphi for advice after the Roman defeat at the Battle of Cannae. He wrote in Greek, and was more of an annalist than an historian. He used the chronicles of his own and other important Roman families as sources, and began with the arrival of Aeneas in LatiumLatium (now Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The regional capital is Rome. The name of the region recalls the ancient population of Latins, from whom the Romans. His work ended with his own recollections of the Second Punic War, which he blamed entirely on Carthage, especially the Barca family of HamilcarHamilcar Barca (about 270 228 BC), or Barcas ( Hebrew barak "lightning"), was a Carthaginian general and statesman, father of Hannibal. He distinguished himself during the First Punic War in 247, when he took over the chief command in Sicily, which at thi and HannibalHannibal Barca ( 247 BC- 182 BC) was a military commander of ancient Carthage, best known for his achievements in the Second Punic War in marching an army from Spain over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy and defeating the Romans at the Battle.
He was used as a source by 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, LivyTitus Livius (around 59 BC AD 17), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome from its supposed founding in 753 BC. Life and Works The book's title, Ab Urbe Condita ("From the Founding of the City"), makes Livy's ambition clear, but not, and Dionysius of HalicarnassusDionysius Halicarnassensis ("of Halicarnassus"), Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, flourished during the reign of Augustus. He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin language and liter, and his work had been translated into Latin by the time of CiceroFor other uses see Cicero (disambiguation Marcus Tullius Cicero ( January 3, 106 BC December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin prose stylist. Biography Cicero was born in Arpinum and caug.
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