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Leonidas
The year was 480 BC and the Battle of Thermopylae was about to commence. King Leonidas I was dispatched from
Sculpture of Herodotus
Insatiably curious, prone to whimsy, a talented writer, a slave to gossip, an innovator, a barbarian apologist, a cosmopolitan, a
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Painting of Pericles
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Thetis and Achilles
by A.P. David Unlike Socrates, Plato wrote—and wrote and wrote. This was a man who said, on a rare occasion