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Pompeius Trogus

1st century BCE · 1st century BCE · Also known as Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus

Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus was a Roman historian of the Augustan age from the Vocontii of Gallia Narbonensis, whose grandfather had received Roman citizenship from Pompey. His Philippic Histories, a universal history in 44 books centred on Macedon and the Hellenistic kingdoms, is lost but survives in an abridgement by Justin, an important source for Hellenistic history.

Pompeius Trogus
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