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Twelve Greeks and Romans who changed the world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard, Carl J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
Subjects:
Greece > Biography.
Rome > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Homer, founder of Western literature
  • Thales, founder of Western science
  • Themistocles, defender of Greek civilization
  • Pericles, democratic reformer
  • Plato, founder of Western philosophy
  • Alexander the Great, disseminator of Greek culture
  • Scipio Africanus, defender of the Roman Republic
  • Julius Caesar, destroyer of the Roman Republic
  • Cicero, statesman, philosopher, and republican martyr
  • Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire
  • Paul of Tarsus, Christian evangelist
  • Augustine, Christian theologian.