People

1737–1794

Philippe Curtius was a Swiss physician and wax modeller who worked in Paris and became the teacher and guardian of Marie Tussaud. His wax portraits and […]

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Philippe Pétain is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making and court politics and dynastic power. These works approach the figure […]

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died 2 BCE

Phraates IV secured the Parthian throne through dynastic violence and ruled during renewed confrontation with Rome. His forces and allies resisted Mark Antony’s invasion in 36 […]

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1763–1806

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve was a French admiral who commanded the combined Franco-Spanish fleet during the Trafalgar campaign. After failing to draw British forces away from Europe as […]

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1475–1539

Pierre Gringore was a French poet, playwright and satirist active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. His work belongs to the lively public and […]

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1841–1879

Cavagnari entered East India Company military service and later worked as a political officer on the north-west frontier. During the Second Anglo-Afghan War he negotiated the […]

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1624–1674

Pieter van Ruijven was a wealthy Delft citizen and the principal known patron of Johannes Vermeer. He and his wife Maria de Knuijt appear to have […]

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c. 9th century BCE–717 BCE

Piye was a Kushite king who conquered much of Egypt and helped establish the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. His victory stela describes a campaign from Nubia into a […]

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c. 20s–79

Pliny the Elder was a Roman author, naval commander and natural philosopher. His Natural History attempted to collect knowledge about the physical world, art and human […]

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575 BCE–523 BCE

Polycrates was tyrant of Samos in the sixth century BC and a powerful naval ruler in the Aegean. Ancient tradition remembered him for wealth, ambition, piracy […]

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