Alexander The Great

Alexander The Great

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ancient greece monarch Bisexual Pacific Ocean undefeated Alexander III … Eros in ancient Greece
Alexander the Great (Greek:, "Megas Alexandros"; July 20 356 BC - June 10 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, was an Ancient Greek king of... More
Aristophanes

Aristophanes

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Playwright satirist ancient greece the Prince of Ancient Comedy the Father of Comedy Ancient Athenian
Aristophanes was a Greek Old Comic dramatist. He is also known as "the Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy".
Aeschylus

Aeschylus

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Persian invasion of Greece The Persian Persian Wars Battle of Marathon Greek chorus chorus … ancient greece
Aeschylus, IPA: or, 525 BC/524 BC - 456 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is... More
Protagoras

Protagoras

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agnostic Abdera, Thrace pre-Socratic Pre-Socratic philosophy craters of the Moon named after them relativism … ancient greece
Protagoras (Greek:) (ca. 490- 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue... More
Pausanias

Pausanias

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Geographer Roman Greece 2nd century Roman era geographer greek ancient greece
Pausanias (Greek:) was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus... More

Pausanias

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spartan The curse of the Goddess of the Brazen House death by starvation battle of Mycale Battle of Plataea Greco-Persian Wars … ancient greece
Pausanias was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC. He was the nephew of Leonidas I and served as regent after his uncle's death, as Leonidas'... More

Epictetus

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Roman era philosopher ancient greek stoic slave ancient greece greek
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia, and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in... More
Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus

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Bibliotheca historica angry mob Classical geography Ptolemaic Egypt Chronica BC death … ancient greece
Diodorus Siculus (Greek), ca. 90 BC- ca. 30 BC, was a Greek historian, born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). Jerome writes that Diodorus... More
Hipparchus

Hipparchus

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Astrologer craters of the Moon named after them Astronomer trigonometry astrolabe antiquity … ancient greece
Hipparchus (Greek ; ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born... More
Mary Renault

Mary Renault

female, deceased (1983)
English women writer English historical novelist theseus From London ancient greece lesbian … Pederasty in ancient Greece
Mary Renault (pronounced Ren-olt) (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) born Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical no... More