The monumental history of China from its legendary origins to the Han dynasty, by the court historian Sima Qian. Its biographical structure shaped Chinese historiography for two thousand years.
Sources for Sima Qian — Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian — Records of the Grand Historian in History
Held in the History chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Herodotus — The Histories (−440)
- Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (−400)
- Polybius — The Histories (−150)
- Tacitus — Annals (110)
- Ibn Khaldun — Muqaddimah (1377)
- Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars (−50)
- Livy — The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) (−27)
- Tacitus — Germania (98)
- Suetonius — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (121)
- Gibbon — The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776)
- Macaulay — The History of England (1848)
- Parkman — France and England in North America (1865)