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died 224 CE

Artabanus IV contested the Parthian throne before becoming the principal Arsacid ruler in the west. Caracalla attempted to exploit Parthian divisions and invaded in 216, but […]

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1879–1947

Arthur John Brock was a Scottish physician, classical scholar and medical writer who worked at Craiglockhart War Hospital during the First World War. He treated officers […]

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1883–1939

Arthur Maurice Hocart was a British anthropologist and archaeologist noted for fieldwork in the Solomon Islands, Fiji and other Pacific societies. He later served as Archaeological […]

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550–475 BCE

Atossa was an Achaemenid queen, daughter of Cyrus the Great, wife of Darius I and mother of Xerxes I. Her position linked the founding line of […]

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died 47 BCE

Aulus Gabinius was a political ally of Pompey who served as consul in 58 BCE and later governed Syria. He intervened in Judaean affairs and, without […]

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Avishag was a young woman from Shunem who attends the elderly King David in the biblical narrative. After David’s death, Adonijah’s request to marry her is […]

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c. 5th century BCE–c. 4th century BCE

Bagoas was a Persian eunuch connected with the court of Alexander the Great after the Macedonian conquest of the Achaemenid Empire. Ancient sources present him as […]

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1775–1851

Baji Rao II was the last peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy. His unstable alliances with rival Maratha chiefs and the British East India Company led to […]

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tenth century–991

Bardas Skleros was a Byzantine general who led a major revolt against Basil II from 976 to 979. His rebellion revealed the power of the military […]

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