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Eratosthenes, Measuring the Earth
Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek scholar who lived and worked in Cyrene and Alexandria. Eratosthenes was director of the famous library in Alexandria, and is known for... |
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Qin Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of China
Emperor Shi Huang of Qin dynasty of China, also called Qin Shi Huang (260 BC-210 BC), was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emper... |
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Han Gaozu, Founder Han Dynasty
Han Gaozu, Chinese emperor, reigned 206-194 B.C, during the Eastern Han dynasty.
Emperor Gao, commonly known inside China as Gaozu, personal name Liu Bang, was the fir... |
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Hannibal, General of Carthage
Hannibal Barca, the famous General of Carthage who crossed the Alps with his elephants to fight the Romans. This happened around 2,200 years ago. Carthage - with its capi... |
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Scipio Africanus, Defeated Hannibal
Scipio Africanus was a Roman General who conquered Hannibal, 202 BC, in the Punic Wars. Scipio followed his father into battle during the 2nd Punic War in Spain and was l... |
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Cato the Elder
Cato (sometimes called the Censor) was one of the most prominent figures in ancient Rome. An accomplished soldier, politician and statesman, his contributions to the Roma... |
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Aphrodite : Venus de Milo
As the Greek goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite holds great power over both mortals and immortals. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that she is featured in num... |
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Hipparchus, Astronomer
Hipparchus was the most important Greek astronomers of his time. He very accurately cataloged over 1,000 stars and invented the mathematical science of trigonometry. Ptol... |
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Sima Qian, Chinese Historian
Sima Qian was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography because of his highly praised work, Shiji, an over... |
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Pompey, rival of Julius Caesar
Pompey (the Great), was a distinguished and ambitious Roman military leader, provincial administrator and politician of the 1st century BC, the period of the Late Republi... |
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Cicero, Roman Philosopher
Cicero was born in 106 BC, six years before the birth of Julius Caesar, into a wealthy family, though none of his family served as senators. He received the Roman equival... |
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Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar was born in the year 100 BC into a patrian family who claimed decendancy from the kings of Alba Langa and through them, Aeneas of Troy whose mother wa... |
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Cato, the Younger
Marcus Porcius Cato "Uticensis" (also known as Cato the Younger) was many things, including the adamantine foe of the triumvirs Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus and the man wh... |
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Marcus Junius Brutus, Assassin of Caesar
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has so influenced the Western mind in its conception of the relative characters of Caesar and his chief assassin, Brutus, that it is almost im... |
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Marc Antony
Marcus Antonius was a Roman politician and general. He was an important supporter of Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator. After Caesar's assassination... |
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