Fabius used the records of his own and other important Roman families as sources, and began with the arrival of Aeneas in Latium. His work ended with his own recollections of the Second Punic War.
A member of the Senate, Fabius Pictor fought in the Gallic War of 225 BC and that he was sent by the senate to Delphi in 216 BC to consult the oracle after disaster at Cannae.
The first history of Rome was written in Greek by Q. Fabius Pictor at the close of the third century BC. According to Plutarch, that Fabius’ source for the Romulus and Remus story was a Greek historian called Diocles of Peparethus (Life of Romulus, 3.1), and the great historian of Western Greece and Sicily, Timaeus of Tauromenium, had incorporated a good deal of material about Rome’s mythical past in his Histories of c. 280 BC.
Quintus Fabius Pictor: Roman Historian
