Person
On this page, you will find an overview of ancient people who are known to us as individuals (and not as groups).
There are 794 items in Person:
Herod the Great
Herod (73-5/4 BCE) was the pro-Roman king of the small Jewish state in the last decades before the common era.Early years …Herodas
Herodas (Greek: Ἡρώδας): Hellenistic poet, author of several mimes, short poems containing a farce.The Author Myrina, Statuette of two chatting ladies Among…Herodes Atticus
Herodes Atticus (c.102-177): Greek orator, one of the representatives of the Second Sophistic. Herodes Atticus Herodes Atticus was living in the past.…Herodian
Herodian (c.170-c.240): Greek historian, author of a History of the Roman Empire. The full text can be found here. Commodus as…Herodotus
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429 BCE): Greek researcher, often called the world's first historian. In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid Empire under its kings Cyrus the Great (r.559-530), Cambyses (r.539-522), and Darius I the Great (r.522-486), culminating…Hesiod
Hesiod: legendary Greek poet, author of the Theogony and Works and Days. Hesiod In the mid-eighth century, a sailor settled at Ascra…Himilco
Himilco: Carthaginian voyager, the first Mediterranean sailor known to have reached the northwestern shores of Europe. He wrote a story about his adventures, which is now lost. It is quoted, however, by two Roman authors, and we are therefore able…Hipparchus
Hipparchus of Nicaea (second century BCE): Greek astronomer, discoverer of the precession.The stellar catalogue made by Hipparchus of Nicaea contains observations that can be dated to 162-128 BCE, and this gives us an indication about the period in which he…Hippias
Hippias (Greek: Ἱππίας): tyrant of Athens (r.528/527-510 BCE). The temple of Zeus (finished in the Roman age); in the distance the Acropolis. Hippias…Hippocrates of Cos
Hippocrates of Cos (460-377?): famous Greek physician. Hippocrates of Cos Hardly anything is known about Hippocrates of Cos, except for the fact…Hippocrates of Gela
Hippocrates: between 498 and 491/490 tyrant of the Greek city of Gela on Sicily, one of the most powerful rulers in the Greek west …Honorius
Honorius: emperor of the West-Roman empire (r.395-423). Honorius Names: 9 September 384: Flavius Honorius January 393: Flavius Honorius Augustus 15 August 423: natural death co-emperor of…