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Moses of Chorene
Moses of Chorene: author of an influential History of Armenia. Manuscript of the "History of the Armenians" by Moses of Chorene In…Pausanias
Pausanias (c.125-c.180?): Greek author, writer of a Description of Greece. Portrait of a Roman man, third quarter of the second century No…Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder or Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79): Roman officer and encyclopedist, author of the Natural History.Youth Portrait of a Roman…Plutarch
Plutarch of Chaeronea (46-c.122): influential Greek philosopher and author, well known for his biographies and his moral treatises. Bust, believed to…Posidonius of Apamea
Posidonius of Apamea (135-51): Greek philosopher, historian, and scientist. Posidonius of Apamea We are ill-informed about the development of philosophy after the…
Rhodes, Portrait of Posidonius of Apamea |
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…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…
Welschbillig, Portrait of Thucydides |
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. …Yohanan ben Zakkai
Yohanan ben Zakkai (second half first century CE): rabbi, one of the founders of rabbinical Judaism. Modern reconstruction of an ancient…