Twelve Greeks and Romans who changed the world
By: Carl J. Richard.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Greece -- Biography.; Rome -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: 12 Greeks and Romans who changed the world
Notes: "Brief bibliographical suggestions for general readers": p. 247-249.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Homer, founder of Western literature; title: Thales, founder of Western science; title: Themistocles, defender of Greek civilization; title: Pericles, democratic reformer; title: Plato, founder of Western philosophy; title: Alexander the Great, disseminator of Greek culture; title: Scipio Africanus, defender of the Roman Republic; title: Julius Caesar, destroyer of the Roman Republic; title: Cicero, statesman, philosopher, and republican martyr; title: Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire; title: Paul of Tarsus, Christian evangelist; title: Augustine, Christian theologian.