Nerva was Roman emperor from AD 96 to 98, succeeding Domitian after his assassination. His short reign is important because he adopted Trajan, beginning the succession […]
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Numa Pompilius was the legendary second king of Rome. Roman tradition credited him with religious institutions, priesthoods and a peaceful ordering of civic life after the […]
Oceanus was the primordial river or divine personification believed by the Greeks to encircle the inhabited world. He belongs to early cosmological traditions in which seas, […]
Orestes was the Roman imperial governor of Egypt in 415 AD, serving as Augustal prefect at Alexandria. His administration became dominated by a struggle for authority […]
Pelasgus was a name used in Greek myth for early kings and ancestors of the Pelasgian peoples. Different traditions place Pelasgus in Argos, Arcadia or Thessaly, […]
Perseus of Macedon was the last king of the Antigonid dynasty in Macedon. His attempt to preserve Macedonian influence led to the Third Macedonian War, ending […]
Phidias is represented in the linked non-fiction through religion, belief and institutional authority, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and political ambition and government. […]
Pliny the Younger was a Roman senator and letter writer of the late first and early second centuries. His correspondence describes elite society, provincial government, the […]
Plotinus was a third-century philosopher and the principal figure associated with Neoplatonism. His teachings describe reality as an emanation from the One and emphasise the soul’s […]
Plutarch was a Greek biographer, philosopher and priest who wrote under the Roman Empire. His Parallel Lives compare Greek and Roman statesmen and generals, preserving influential […]