The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume, with extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers tracing the history of Rome over more than a thousand years: from the city's foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantine's edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.)

Ronald Mellor is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has been teaching Greek and Roman History, western civilization, and ancient world history since 1976. He was for five years Chair of the UCLA History department. His most recent book was "Tacitus' Annals" published in 2011 by the Oxford University Press. His research focuses on ancient religion and Roman historiography. Other book include Thea Rome (1977), From Augustus to Nero: The First Dynasty of Imperial Rome (1990), Tacitus (1993), Tacitus: The Classical Heritage (1995), The Roman Historians (1999), and Caesar Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire (2005).

Preface to the Third Edition Timeline Introduction Reading Ancient Historians 1. Historical Inscriptions 2. Polybius 3. Sallust 4. Cicero 5. C. Julius Caesar 6. Cornelius Nepos 7. Livy 8. Velleius Paterculus 9. Josephus 10. Suetonius 11. Tacitus 12. Pliny the Younger 13. Plutarch 14. Appian 15. Cassius Dio 16. Lactantius 17. Eusebius 18. Scriptores Historiae Augustae 19. Ammianus Marcellinus 20. Zosimus Bibliography Index