Robert Graves

Robert Graves

male, deceased (1985)
Count Belisarius, The Twelve Caesars, Good-bye to All That, ancient greek, World War I, Writer of historical fiction set in Antiquity…classicalantiquity
Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July, 1895 - 7 December, 1985) was an English poet, scholar, and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than...
Hipparchus

Hipparchus

male
Astrologer, craters of the Moon named after them, Astronomer, trigonometry, astrolabe, antiquity…classicalantiquity
Hipparchus (Greek ; ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born...
Roberto Weiss

Roberto Weiss

male, deceased (1969)
death by myocardial infarction, grammar, academia, English, University of Oxford, University College, London…classicalantiquity, The Renaissance discovery of classical antiquity, Classical scholar
Roberto Weiss, Italian-British scholar and historian, specialist in Italian-English cultural contacts during the period of Renaissance period and...

Polykleitos

male
ancient greek, Amazons, BC Greek sculptor, Kresilas, Heraion of Argos, Astragalizontes…classicalantiquity
Polykleitos ; called the Elder was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early fourth century BC. Next to famous Phidias, Myron and...
Archimedes

Archimedes

male
ancient roman, mathematics, physicist, mathematician, engineer, calculus…classicalantiquity, antiquity
Archimedes of Syracuse was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer. Although little is known about his life, he is regarded as one...

Neaira

prostitute, prostitution, ancient greece, antiquity, Polis, classicalantiquity…Courtesans of antiquity
Neaira (pronounced "neh-EYE-ruh") was a hetaera who lived in the 4th century BC in ancient Greece; there is no reliable data about the exact dates...
Giovanni Pascoli

Giovanni Pascoli

male, deceased (1912)
poet, Italian, Scholar, English, University of Bologna, from Emilia-Romagna…classicalantiquity
Giovanni Pascoli was an Italian poet and classical scholar. He had a tragic childhood with the murder of his father and the early deaths of his...
Pyrrho

Pyrrho

male
antiquity, classicalantiquity, ancient greek, acatalepsia, Timon of Phlius, gymnosophist
Pyrrho (ca. 360 BC - ca. 270 BC), a Greek philosopher from Elis, was in antiquity credited as being the first skeptic philosopher and inspiration...
Jacques Le Goff

Jacques Le Goff

male, 85 years old
Louis IX, King of France, medievalist, Middle Ages, canonization, classicalantiquity…Greco-Roman antiquity
Jacques Le Goff is a French historian specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries. A prolific medievalist of...
John Beazley

John Beazley

male, deceased (1970)
Christ's Hospital Old Blue, Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, Art historian, Scholar…Classical scholar, classicalantiquity
Sir John Davidson Beazley (Glasgow, Scotland, 1885 - Oxford, England, 1970) was an English Classical scholar. Beazley attended Balliol College,...