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Strabo of Amasia
Strabo of Amasia (c.62 BCE - c.24 CE): Greek geographer, one of the most important sources for ancient topography and history. Portrait…Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.71-c.135): Roman scholar and official, best-known as the author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars.Life Roman official, first quarter…Synesius of Cyrene
Synesius of Cyrene (c.370-c.413): Neo-Platonic philosopher, sophist, and bishop of Ptolemais in the Cyrenaica. Portrait of a Roman man, c. 400…Synesius of Cyrene (2)
Map of Cyrenaica In 409, Synesius was invited to become bishop of Ptolemais, a port west of Cyrene and the main…Theopompus
Theopompus of Chios (378-ca.320): Greek historian, one of the representatives of the "rhetorical history".According to a brief Byzantine biography, Theopompus, the son of Damasistratus, was born in the year that corresponds with our 378/377. This was the age in which…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…
Trier, Fausta's fresco: Philosopher (Apuleius?) |
Tus, Statue of Firdausi |
Velleius Paterculus
Velleius Paterculus (c. 20 BCE - after 30 CE) Roman officer, senator, and scholar, author of a brief Roman History. Roman…Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro ("Virgil", 70 - 19 BCE): Roman poet, author of the Aeneid, the national poem of the Romans.Life Virgil…Zosimus
Zosimus (Greek Ζώσιμος): Early Byzantine, pagan author of a history of the Roman Empire, published in the first quarter of the sixth century CE.Life …