Rutherford B. Hayes
2 booksRutherford B. Hayes was the nineteenth president of the United States. He entered office after the disputed election of 1876 and the political settlement that ended […]
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Sasaki Kojirō
2 booksSasaki Kojirō is represented in the linked historical fiction through exploration, travel and cultural encounter, military command and battlefield decision-making, and court politics and dynastic power. […]
Scipio Aemilianus
2 booksScipio Aemilianus was a Roman general and statesman best known for destroying Carthage in 146 BC and later taking Numantia in Spain. Adopted into the Scipionic […]
Severus Alexander
2 booksSeverus Alexander became Roman emperor in AD 222 after the murder of his cousin Elagabalus. Still young, he governed with strong influence from his mother Julia […]
Socrates
2 booksSocrates was an Athenian philosopher whose questioning method and trial became central to the history of Western thought. Known through writers such as Plato and Xenophon, […]
Solomon
2 booksSolomon was the biblical king who succeeds David and is associated with wisdom, wealth and the First Temple in Jerusalem. His reign is described as a […]
Stephen Gardiner
2 booksStephen Gardiner was bishop of Winchester, diplomat and a leading conservative churchman during the English Reformation. He initially served Henry VIII and defended royal supremacy while […]
Stilicho
2 booksStilicho was a Roman general of Vandal origin who became the dominant military figure in the western empire under Honorius. He fought Goths and internal rivals […]
Telemachus
2 booksTelemachus is the son of Odysseus and Penelope in Homeric tradition. In the Odyssey he travels in search of news about his missing father, confronts the […]
Theodoric the Great
2 booksTheodoric the Great was king of the Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy after defeating Odoacer. From Ravenna he preserved much of the Roman administration, worked with […]