(died 323 B.C.) Alexander The Great By PlutarchWritten 75 A.C.E. Translated by John Dryden IT being my...
Persons of History
(450-404 BC) When the philosopher Socrates was tried and convicted, in 399 BC, for corrupting the young...
Just like his contemporary Sappho, Alcaios lived on Lesbos. It has sometimes been suggested that the two...
(444-360 BC) King of Sparta who came to the throne after Lysander had helped him declare his...
(360-289 BC) Ruler of Syracusae whose greatest enemies were the oligarchs. He was the son of a...
(620-560 BC) Fable writer whose many stories are still read. Amongst them are The Dog who wanted...
(390-315 BC) Orator from Attica whose family lost everything and had to go into exile when the...
Aeschylus was born in the city of Eleusis, near Athens, in 525 BC and died in 456...
