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  More info about: Complete Works of Aristotle
  Complete Works of Aristotle
The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotl...
         
  More info about: Pyrrhus of Epirus, Pyrrhic Victory
  Pyrrhus of Epirus, Pyrrhic Victory
Pyrrhus of Epirus, king of the Molossians (from ca. 297 BC), Epirus (306-301, 297-272 BC) and Macedon (288-284, 273-272 BC), was one of the strongest opponents of early R...
         
  More info about: Aristarchus, Sun at center of Universe
  Aristarchus, Sun at center of Universe
Aristarchus of Samosis the first person we know of who suggested that the earth might go around the sun and not the other way around. He figured this out by looking at th...
         
  More info about: The Ptolemies, Last Indept. Dynasty Egypt
  The Ptolemies, Last Indept. Dynasty Egypt
Ptolemies: name of the last dynasty of independent Egypt. In 332, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and gave a new capital to the old kingdom along...
         
  More info about: Archimedes of Syracuse
  Archimedes of Syracuse
One of the most original thinkers of Antiquity was Archimedes of Syracuse. Because our approach to physics is based upon a model that was developed by this scientist, we...
         
  More info about: Eratosthenes, Measuring the Earth
  Eratosthenes, Measuring the Earth
Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek scholar who lived and worked in Cyrene and Alexandria. Eratosthenes was director of the famous library in Alexandria, and is known for...
         
  More info about: The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
  The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
There has never been a writer of mathematics as successful as Euclid. For well over 2000 years the work that Euclid did in compiling The Elements has been the crowning ac...
         
  More info about: Punic Wars (role-playing game)
  Punic Wars (role-playing game)
Learn about the character and activities of Hannibal Barca as he takes on the Romans. An award-winning historical site for students to investigate the Second Punic War....
         
  More info about: Punic War 1
  Punic War 1
Collective name on the wars between the Punic (the Romans used the name Poeni on the people of Carthage) city state of Carthage (now outside Tunis, Tunisia) and Rome, the...
         
  More info about: Qin Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of China
  Qin Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of China
Emperor Shi Huang of Qin dynasty of China, also called Qin Shi Huang (260 BC-210 BC), was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emper...
         
  More info about: Han Gaozu, Founder Han Dynasty
  Han Gaozu, Founder Han Dynasty
Han Gaozu, Chinese emperor, reigned 206-194 B.C, during the Eastern Han dynasty. Emperor Gao, commonly known inside China as Gaozu, personal name Liu Bang, was the fir...
         
  More info about: The Great Wall of China
  The Great Wall of China
Also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000 Li, is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 15th century until the beginning of the 16th century, du...
         
  More info about: Hannibal, General of Carthage
  Hannibal, General of Carthage
Hannibal Barca, the famous General of Carthage who crossed the Alps with his elephants to fight the Romans. This happened around 2,200 years ago. Carthage - with its capi...
         
  More info about: Scipio Africanus, Defeated Hannibal
  Scipio Africanus, Defeated Hannibal
Scipio Africanus was a Roman General who conquered Hannibal, 202 BC, in the Punic Wars. Scipio followed his father into battle during the 2nd Punic War in Spain and was l...
         
  More info about: Cato the Elder
  Cato the Elder
Cato (sometimes called the Censor) was one of the most prominent figures in ancient Rome. An accomplished soldier, politician and statesman, his contributions to the Roma...
         
         
 
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