Looking for another historian to read

[stevesarak]

You might want to try Dionysius of Halicarnassus. I think he is very good to read alongside Livy. They must have often used the same sources, and I think they complement each other well.

He was Greek and wrote in Greek probably for a Greek audience. One of his themes is that the Romans were themselves descended from Greeks. I believe he was trying to counter the common opinion that the Romans were descended from Aeneas and the Trojans.

He seems rather flamboyant at times to me, and you have to be careful with some of the things he says, but I still think he is quite interesting to read.

Thanks, maybe I can use him to fill in the missing volumes of Livy. I'll look into him.