Apuleius was a second-century North African writer and intellectual who composed in Latin. He is best known for the Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass, a novel […]
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Archibald Clark Kerr, later Lord Inverchapel, was a British diplomat whose career included service as ambassador to China, the Soviet Union and the United States. During […]
Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, engineer and inventor from Syracuse in Sicily. His surviving works transformed geometry, statics and hydrostatics, and later tradition associated him with […]
Arrian was a Greek historian, senior Roman administrator and experienced military commander writing more than four centuries after Alexander the Great’s death. Although he could not […]
Asa Kent Jennings was an American Methodist minister and YMCA worker who was in Smyrna during the destruction of the city in 1922. He organised ships […]
Aurelian is represented in the linked non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, religion, belief and institutional authority, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. […]
Camillus was a Roman general and statesman of the early Republic who became a semi-legendary figure in later tradition. He was credited with the conquest of […]
Cassius was a Roman senator and one of the principal organisers of the assassination of Julius Caesar. After the murder he joined Brutus in raising forces […]
Catullus was a Roman poet of the late Republic. His short poems range from intimate love and friendship to invective, elite social rivalry and engagement with […]
Chattar Singh Attariwalla was a Sikh governor and rebel leader during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. His conflict with British authorities and coordination with his son Sher […]