Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus

Gallo-Roman historian who flourished during the reign of the emperor Augustus

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Updated 2026-06-09

A Gallo-Roman historian from the Celtic Vocontii tribe who wrote during Augustus's reign, contemporary to Livy, pulling attention as one of the rare provincial voices to enter the Roman historical canon.

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Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus came from the Vocontii, a Celtic tribe in Narbonese Gaul, and flourished in the 1st century BC. He lived and worked under Augustus, writing history at the same time Livy was shaping Rome's official narrative. Trogus appears to have been a polymath, though the full scope of his learning survives mostly in shadow.

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