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Huang Di, One of the Five Emperors
The Yellow Emperor or Huang Di is a legendary Chinese sovereign and cultural hero who is said to be the ancestor of all Han Chinese.
One of the Five Emperors, the Yell... |
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Cyrus The Great, Founder of Persia
Cyrus was the first Achaemenid Emperor. He founded Persia by uniting the two original Iranian Tribes- the Medes and the Persians. Although he was known to be a great conq... |
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Leonidas, King of Sparta
Leonidas was a king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line. He was one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, descendant of Heracles. He succeeded his half-brother... |
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Thucydides, Greek Historian
Thucydides was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. This w... |
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Xenophon, Greek Historian
Xenophon was a soldier, mercenary and Athenian student of Socrates and is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of... |
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Darius III, Defeated by Alexander
The last Persian Great King of the Achaemenid dynasty - Darius III Codomannus - is remembered in history as the premier enemy who was beaten by Alexander. Darius had to a... |
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Ptolemy I, Founder Ptolemaic Dynasty
Ptolemy I Soter: friend and biographer of the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great, after his death king of Egypt, founder of the the Ptolemaic dynasty, one of the Di... |
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Alexander the Great
Alexander surprised everyone at age 20 by quickly revealing himself to be every bit the man (even moreso) than his father, the awesome Philip II (382-336) of Macedon. Al... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Pompey, rival of Julius Caesar
Pompey (the Great), was a distinguished and ambitious Roman military leader, provincial administrator and politician of the 1st century BC, the period of the Late Republi... |
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Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar was born in the year 100 BC into a patrian family who claimed decendancy from the kings of Alba Langa and through them, Aeneas of Troy whose mother wa... |
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Marc Antony
Marcus Antonius was a Roman politician and general. He was an important supporter of Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator. After Caesar's assassination... |
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Vercingetorix: Gallic Warrior defied Rome
Vercingetorix of the Arverni (modern Auvergne) tried desperately to unite the Gauls against the common enemy. His defeat was inevitable, for the Gauls could not make comm... |
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