Charles VIII of France
2 booksCharles VIII inherited the French throne as a minor and initially ruled under the regency of his elder sister Anne of France. His campaign against Brittany […]
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Chester W. Nimitz
2 booksChester W. Nimitz is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, crime, espionage and covert power, and social change and the […]
Christopher Marlowe
2 booksChristopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan age. His plays, including Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus and Edward II, helped transform English drama […]
Cimon
2 booksCimon was an Athenian general and statesman, the son of Miltiades, who became a leading commander of the Delian League after the Persian Wars. He won […]
Circe
2 booksCirce is a divine enchantress in Greek mythology, best known from the Odyssey. On her island of Aeaea she transforms Odysseus’s companions into animals, later restores […]
Claudia Acte
2 booksClaudia Acte was a freedwoman at the court of Nero and one of the emperor’s early companions. Ancient accounts place her within the personal and political […]
Clementia of Hungary
2 booksClementia of Hungary was queen consort of France and Navarre through her marriage to Louis X. After Louis’s death, she gave birth to John I, whose […]
Cleopatra Selene II
2 booksCleopatra Selene II was the daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony who became queen of Mauretania. Taken to Rome after her parents’ defeat, she was […]
Clodia
2 booksClodia was a Roman aristocrat of the late Republic, often identified with the Lesbia of Catullus’s poetry. She belonged to the powerful Claudian family and appears […]
Clodius Albinus
2 booksClodius Albinus was a Roman governor and imperial claimant during the civil wars that followed the death of Commodus. He was defeated by Septimius Severus at […]