Strabo (63 BC – AD) was an important exponent of the Greco-Roman tradition of combining geography with history, presenting a descriptive history of peoples and places known to his era. The Roman historian Sallust (86–35 BC) sought to analyze and document what he viewed as the decline of the Republican Roman state and its virtues, highlighted in his respective narrative accounts of the Catilinarian conspiracy and the Jugurthine War. Livy (59 BC – 17 AD) records the rise of Rome from city-state to empire. His speculation about what would have happened if Alexander the Great had marched against Rome represents the first known instance of alternate history.
Strabo (63 BC – AD) was an important exponent of the Greco-Roman tradition of combining geography with history presenting a descriptive history of peoples and places known to his era The Roman historian Sallust (86–35 BC) sought to analyze and document what he viewed as the decline of the Republican Roman state and its virtues highlighted in his respective narrative accounts of the Catilinarian conspiracy and the Jugurthine War Livy (59 BC – 17 AD) records the rise of Rome from city-state to empire His speculation about what would have happened if Alexander the Great had marched against Rome represents the first known instance of alternate history