Antipater
2 booksAntipater was a senior Macedonian general and statesman who served Philip II and Alexander the Great. While Alexander campaigned in Asia, Antipater governed Macedonia and Greece, […]
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Antipater of Sidon
2 booksAntipater of Sidon was a Greek poet of the second century BC, known especially for epigrams preserved in later anthologies. He is often associated with the […]
Antonina
2 booksAntonina was the wife of the Byzantine general Belisarius and an influential figure at the court of Justinian and Theodora. Procopius portrays her as active in […]
Antonio López de Santa Anna
2 booksAntonio López de Santa Anna is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and family, […]
Apollonius of Rhodes
2 booksApollonius of Rhodes was a Hellenistic Greek poet best known for the Argonautica. His epic retells Jason’s voyage for the Golden Fleece with particular attention to […]
Aristophanes
2 booksAristophanes was an Athenian comic playwright active during the Peloponnesian War. His surviving plays satirise politicians, philosophers, military policy and the strains of prolonged war, often […]
Arsinoe IV of Egypt
2 booksArsinoe IV of Egypt was a Ptolemaic princess and rival of her sister Cleopatra VII. During the Alexandrian War she was proclaimed queen by forces opposing […]
Ataulf
2 booksAtaulf was king of the Visigoths from 410 to 415 and succeeded his brother-in-law Alaric after the sack of Rome. He moved the Goths from Italy […]
Aulus Caecina Severus
2 booksAulus Caecina Severus was a Roman senator and general who served under Augustus and Tiberius. He fought in the great Illyrian revolt and later commanded forces […]
Balbinus
2 booksBalbinus was a wealthy Roman senator who became joint emperor with Pupienus during the crisis of AD 238. The senate selected the two men to oppose […]