Biographers of ancient people

2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer

Chinese historian, politician and poet (AD 32–92)

thumb|Title page of the Vitae sophistarum of Eunapius, in Greek and Latin, 1596 Eunapius (; c. 347 – c. 420) was a Greek sophist, rhetorician, and historian from Sardis in the region of Lydia in Asia Minor. His principal surviving work is the Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (; ), a collection of the biographies of 24 philosophers and sophists.

Chinese historian (233-297)

5th century Chinese historian

6th-century AD biographer of Thucydides