"I would advise you to undertake a regular course of history & poetry in both languages [Greek and Latin], in Greek, go first thro’ the Cyropaedia, and then read Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon’s Hellenies & Anabasis, Arrian’s Alexander, & Plutarch’s lives, for prose reading ... " - Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 Oct. 1820

"after this general course, there are a number of particular histories, filling up chasms, which may be read at leisure in the progress of life, such as Arrian, Q. Cortius, Polybius, Sallust, Plutarch, Dionysius Halicarnasseus, Micali Etc." - Thomas Jefferson to George W. Lewis, 25 Oct. 1825