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:

Pindar

Pindar (518-438): famous Greek poet, well known for his odes. Pindar The name of the Boeotian poet Pindar will forever be connected…

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Pisistratus

Pisistratus (Greek: Πεισίστρατος) tyrant of Athens, died 528/7 BCE. Perfume bottle in the form of a kneeling athlete: evidence for increased…

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Pissuthnes

Pissuthnes (Old Persian Pišišyaothna; c.470-c.415): Persian satrap of Lydia, revolted against king Darius II Nothus in 420-415 BCE. Achaemenid nobleman Pissuthnes was…

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Pixodarus

Pixodarus: satrap of Caria between 340 and 334, last ruler from the Hecatomnid dynasty.Pixodarus was the youngest son of Hecatomnus, who had obtained the satrapy of Caria in 392/391. He had been succeeded by his oldest son Maussolus, his oldest…

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Piye (or Pianchi)

Piye: name of a Nubian king (ruled c.741-c.716), famous for conquering Egypt. (The name was also written as Pianchi.)Relatives Father: Kastha? Mother: Pebatjna? First wife: Tabiry, daughter of Alara Second wife: Abar, daughter of a sister of Alara Son: Taharqo Further wives: Peksatar (daughter of Kashta),…

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Plautilla

Publia Fulvia Plautilla (c.187-211): name of a Roman princess, wife of Caracalla. Plautilla Plautilla was the daughter of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, the…

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Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger or Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62-c.115): Roman senator, nephew of Pliny the Elder, governor of Bithynia-Pontus (109-111), author of a famous collection of letters. …

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Plotina

Pompeia Plotina (c.70 - after 123): name of a Roman empress, wife of Trajan.Life Plotina c.70: born in Nemausus Between 74 and 86:…

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Plotinus

Plotinus (205-270): Greek philosopher, creator of the great synthesis of late Antiquity, called Neo-Platonism.After the age of Posidonius of Apamea, it was not uncommon that philosophers from one school borrowed concepts and ideas from other branches of philosophy. Slowly, the…

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Polemon I Eusebes

Polemon I Eusebes: Roman vassal king, ruling in Lycaonia, Cilicia, Pontus, and Lesser Armenia (r.37-8 BCE).Polemon I is mentioned in several sources. He was the son of a man named Zeno, a leading citizen of Laodicea, a city that was traditionally pro-Roman…

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