Claudius Aelianus

Claudius Aelianus

male, deceased (235)
Claudius Aelianus (ca. 175-ca. 235), often seen as just Aelian, born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under...

Cleitarchus

male
Cleitarchus, one of the historians of Alexander the Great, son of the historian Dinon of Colophon, was possibly a native of Egypt, or at least...
Themistocles

Themistocles

male
Themistocles (Greek: "'"'; c. 524-459 BC) was a leader in the Athenian democracy during the Persian Wars. He favored the expansion of the navy to...

Xenocles

male
Xenocles, or Zenocles, was an Ancient Greek tragedian. There were two Athenian tragic poets of this name, one the grandfather of the other. No...
Sejanus

Sejanus

male, deceased (31)
Lucius Aelius Seianus (or Sejanus) (20 BC - October 18, 31 AD) was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. He...

Cercidas

male
Cercidas was a poet, philosopher, and legislator for his native city Megalopolis. He was an admirer of Diogenes, whose death he recorded in some...

Cleophon

male
Cleophon was an Athenian politician and demagogue who was of great influence during the Peloponnesian War. He was a staunch democrat, and vehement...
Johann Gottlob Schneider

Johann Gottlob Schneider

male, deceased (1822)
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German classicist and naturalist. Schneider was born at Koilmen in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation...

Campaspe

female
Campaspe, (Or "Pancaste") the mistress of Alexander the Great, was painted by Apelles, who had the reputation in Antiquity for being the greatest...
Manuel Philes

Manuel Philes

male, deceased (1345)
Manuel Philes (c. 1275 - 1345), of Ephesus, Byzantine poet. At an early age he removed to Constantinople, where he was the pupil of Georgius...