Quintus Fabius Pictor (c.254/270-190 BC) (1 Jan 254 Jahr v. Chr. – 1 Jan 190 Jahr v. Chr.)

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Called “Pictor” because his grandfather Gaius Fabius Pictor painted a temple in 302 BC; a senator; sent as an embassy in 216 BC to consult the Delphic oracle about the Roman defeat at Cannae; possibly a member of the decemviri sacris faciundis
Wrote the first Latin history. The history was written in Greek, and its subject was the First and Second Punic Wars

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