Hipparchus

Hipparchus

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

Pyrrho

male
antiquity, classical antiquity, 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...

Robin Osborne

male, 52 years old
Academic of the University of Cambridge, historian, Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, Journal of Hellenic Studies…antiquity, Historian of antiquity
Robin Osborne is an English historian of antiquity, who is particularly interested in Ancient Greece. He authored standard monographs on archaic...
Archimedes

Archimedes

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

Jona Lendering

male
Historian of antiquity, antiquity, ancient history, leiden university, Classical scholar, dutch
Jona Lendering (born in 1964) is a Dutch historian and the author of books on antiquity, Dutch history and modern management. He studied at Leiden...

Thomas Allen

male
Astrologer, English, University of Oxford, From Uttoxeter, Leicester's Commonwealth, Trinity College, Oxford…antiquity
Thomas Allen (or Alleyn) (Uttoxeter,Staffordshire, 21 December1542-30 September1632) was an English mathematician and astrologer. He was admitted...
Stuart Piggott

Stuart Piggott

male, deceased (1996)
Old Churcherians, Charles Phillips, stonehenge, Order of the British Empire, wessex, neolithic…antiquity
Stuart Ernest Piggott CBE (28 May, 1910-23 September, 1996) was a British archaeologist most well known for his work on prehistoric Wessex. Born in...

Neaira

prostitute, prostitution, ancient greece, antiquity, Polis, classical antiquity…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...
Glyn Daniel

Glyn Daniel

male, deceased (1986)
Archaeologist, Barry, Wales, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, from the Vale of Glamorgan, Disney professor of archaeology, The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France…antiquity
Glyn Edmund Daniel (23 April, 1914-13 December, 1986) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the European Neolithic and made some of the...

Theophylact Simocatta

male
persian, Late Antiquity, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, antiquity, Byzantine historian
Theophylact Simocatta ("Theophylaktos Simokates", also "Simokattes") was an early 7th century Byzantine historiographer, arguably ranking as the...