Classics

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Thucydides (historian)

Thucydides (c.460-c.395): Athenian general and historian, author of  the History of the Peloponnesian War.Historian Thucydides Being exiled because he had during the Archidamian War been unable…

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The Trojan War (1)

Ilion or Troy: town in northwestern Asia Minor, famous for the legendary Trojan War, in which a coalition of Mycenaean warriors captured the city of king Priam.Homer's Iliad deals with an episode from this war. …

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The Trojan War (2)

Ilion or Troy: town in northwestern Asia Minor, famous for the legendary Trojan War, in which a coalition of Mycenaean warriors captured the city of king Priam.Homer's Iliad deals with an episode from this war.Iliad …

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The Trojan War (3)

Ilion or Troy: town in northwestern Asia Minor, famous for the legendary Trojan War, in which a coalition of Mycenaean warriors captured the city of king Priam.Homer's Iliad deals with an episode from this war.Aethiopis …

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Typhon

Typhon (Greek Τυφῶν): in Greek mythology a giant monster, opponent of the supreme god Zeus and the Olympian gods. Typhon The first…

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro ("Virgil", 70 - 19 BCE): Roman poet, author of the Aeneid, the national poem of the Romans.Life Virgil…

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Xenophon

Xenophon (c.430-c.354): Athenian soldier and historian, author of the Anabasis and Hellenica. He is one of the best-known and most widely read of all Greek authors. …

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