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The 96 contributions in Brill's New Pauly Supplement 7: Historical Figures from Antiquity depict the survival of great characters from Antiquity to the modern world. Each article presents an overview of the latest research on what we know concerning the lives of the historical person or legendary figure and then recounts the reception of these figures throughout history, giving special attention on the viewpoints in the early modern and contemporary periods.
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• Part I:
• 1. Hannibal--
• 2. Philip V--
• 3. Viriathus--
• 4. Jugurtha-- Part II:
• 5. Mithridates--
• 6. Spartacus--
• 7. Vercingetorix--
• 8. Orodes--
• 9. Cleopatra--
• 10. Arminius-- Part III:
• 11. Boudicca--
• 12. Josephus--
• 13. Decebalus Part IV:
• 14. Shapur--
• 15. Zenobia--
• 16. Alaric--
• 17. Attila-- Epilogue-- Index.
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Until recently, it was assumed that Rome carried the torch of civilization into the barbarian darkness, bringing law, architecture and literature to conquered peoples. An alternative view now suggests that many of Rome's enemies - the Celts and Dacians, for example - were developing civilizations in their own right before premature obliteration at the Roman sword. Indeed, as Philip Matyszak argues, had Rome not crushed rival powers so completely, the drop into the Dark Ages might not have occurred: at Rome's collapse, no other powerful civilizations remained to absorb the impact. This book looks at the growth and eventual demise of Rome from the viewpoint of the vanquished peoples. They varied from the highly cultivated Greeks and Egyptians, to wild and rebellious Britons and Germans, to the Asiatic empires of the Persians and Parthians. Their leaders were driven by ambition, vindictive hatred, fear, political calculation, or simply naked greed. Some fought to preserve their heritage and ancient way of life, some for personal survival, and others from a warrior's love of battle.
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• Preface
• Who's who in the Greek world
• Glossary
• Appendix I: chronology
• Appendix II: list of rulers
• Appendix III: maps.

Was there such a person as Homer? Who were the key figures in the first democracy of the Western World? Who is the father of tragedy? Who is the father of history? Of all the world's ancient civilisations, it is perhaps the Ancient Greece that has the strongest hold over the modern imagination. The history, philosophy and literature continue to intrigue and enthral. Now John Hazel has compiled the definitive biographical guide to the Greek and Hellenistic world from 750 BC to the end of the Roman Empire. The lives of Alexander the Great, Socrates and Plato are opened up, but so too are those of lesser-known figures: Bacchylides the lyric poet; Chares the general; and the traitor Ephialtes, giving a thorough and fascinating overview of life in Ancient Greece.
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Was there such a person as Homer? Who were the key figures in the first democracy of the Western World? Who is the father of tragedy? Who is the father of history? Of all the world's ancient civilisations, it is perhaps the Ancient Greece that has the strongest hold over the modern imagination. The history, philosophy and literature continue to intrigue and enthral. Now John Hazel has compiled the definitive biographical guide to the Greek and Hellenistic world from 750 BC to the end of the Roman Empire. The lives of Alexander the Great, Socrates and Plato are opened up, but so too are those of lesser-known figures: Bacchylides the lyric poet; Chares the general; and the traitor Ephialtes, giving a thorough and fascinating overview of life in Ancient Greece.
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• Altorientalische Tatenberichte mit (auto)biographischen Zigen / Stefan M. Maul
• L'Egitto antico : il genere autobiografico nell'epoca tarda / Edda Bresciani
• Auffällige Formen lateinischer Biographie in Spätantike und Mittelalter (IV.-XII. Jahrhundert) / Walter Berschin
• Vita inscripta / Mary Beard
• Zur antiken Biographie / Albrecht Dihle
• I testi biografici come testimonianza della storia della mentalità / Luigi Piccirilli
• Vita Caesarum : remembering and forgetting the past / Glen W. Bowersock
• Histoire et mystère : les Vies de Philosophes de l'Antiquité tardive / Richard Goulet.

• Life of Cato-- life of Atticus-- prologue to the lives of the foreign generals-- letter of Cornelia.
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The author has selected a cross-section of Cornelius Nepos' work, which shows the literary, social, political and intellectual history of the period 90 to 30 B.C. There are also fragments of Cato, Atticus and Nepos' other works. He also translates and comments on Nepos' preface to his lives of the Foreign Generals and on the "Letter of Cornelia", preserved by Nepos. This collection is aimed not only to illuminate the study of Cicero and the late Roman Republic, but to help awaken interest in neglected areas of Roman historical writing and intellectual life, which only in the last decade have attracted serious study.
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• v. 1. Abaeus-Dysponteus
• v. 2. Earinus-Nyx
• v. 3. Oarses-Zygia.