Historian Of Classical Antiquity

Theodor Mommsen

Science

1817–1903

"Revolutions have nowhere ended, and least of all in ROme, without demanding a certain number of victims, who under forms more or less borrowed from justice atone fro the fault of defeat as though it were a crime."

🇬🇧Robin Lane Fox

Literature

b. 1946

"No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles, ancestor of the Macedonian kings."

🇦🇹Ernst Badian

Education

1925–2011

"Philip II, at least from the time of his victory over Phocis, Athens, and their allies in 346, prepared to proclaim himself the champion of a United Greece against the barbarians."