Title: Twelve Greeks and Romans who changed the world /
Authors: Richard, Carl J.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Greece Biography.; Rome Biography.
Contents: Homer, founder of Western literature -- Thales, founder of Western science -- Themistocles, defender of Greek civilization -- Pericles, democratic reformer -- Plato, founder of Western philosophy -- Alexander the Great, disseminator of Greek culture -- Scipio Africanus, defender of the Roman Republic -- Julius Caesar, destroyer of the Roman Republic -- Cicero, statesman, philosopher, and republican martyr -- Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire -- Paul of Tarsus, Christian evangelist -- Augustine, Christian theologian.