100 great lives of antiquity /
One hundred great lives of antiquity
edited by John Canning.
- London : Methuen, 1985.
- x, 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Rulers and Warriors : Egypt : The Pharaohs: What the Mummies Reveal. Thothmose III. Ramesses II. Shoshenk I. Ptolemy I (Soter). Ptolemy II (Philadelphus). Babylonia, Assyria and Syria : Tiglath-Pileser I. Tigiath-Pileser III. Sargon II. Sennacherib. Ashurbanipal. Nebuchadnezzar. Seleucus I. Antiochus III. Palestine : David. Solomon. Herod I. Persia : Cyrus the Great. Cambyses. Darius the Great. Xerxes. Greece : Cleisthenes. Themistocles. Pericles. Philip II of Macedon. Alexander the Great. Attalos I of Pergamon. Carthage : Hannibal. Rome : Scipio. Marius. Sulla. Cicero. Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar and Shakespeare. Augustus. Tiberius. Claudius. Nero. Vespasian. Trajan. Hadrian. Marcus Aurelius. Diocletian. Theodosius I (The Great). Writers and Sculptors : Homer. Aeschylus. Pindar. Sophocles. Pheidias. Herodotus. Euripides. Thucydides. Aristophanes. Praxiteles. Virgil. Horace. Livy. Ovid. Seneca. Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Younger. Plutarch. Josephus. Reformers : Hammurabi. Moses. Akhenaton. Solon. Asoka. Tiberius Gracchus. Constantine the Great. Women of Power and Influence : Queen Hatshepsut. Sappho. Olympias. Aspasia of Miletus. Artemisia of Halicarnassus. Cleopatra. Livia. Boudicca. Zenobia. Hypatia of Alexandria. Men of Science : Thales. Democritus. Hippocrates. Euclid. Herophilus. Aristarchus of Samos. Erasistratus. Archimedes. Eratosthenes. Pytheas. Hero of Alexandria. Ptolemy. Philosophers and Religious Leaders : Zoroaster. Lao Tzu. Confucius. Pythagoras. Buddha. Plato. Aristotle. Saint Paul. Mani. Saint Augustine of Hippo
100 Great Lives of Antiquity is a collection of biographical essays profiling one hundred of the most influential individuals from the ancient world. Spanning the time period from roughly 2000 BCE to the fall of the Roman Empire, the book covers a wide range of cultures, civilizations, and professions.