They Wrote

See:

Tacitus Wrote
Thucydides Wrote

Raj Whitehall:

"'...let us do what men may, and suffer what we must like men.'"
-The Forge, CHAPTER FOURTEEN, p. 247.

Consulting the two links, the returning to this post, will show the following sequence:

SM Stirling's Snowbrother;

Poul Anderson's Time Patrol story, "Star Of The Sea," quoting Tacitus;

Poul Anderson's Time Patrol story, "Ivory, And Apes, And Peacocks," quoting Thucydides;

SM Stirling's and David Drake's The Forge.

The common themes here are human action and suffering which are reasonably comprehensive.