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Athens, GRC
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s0200l-HOMER born 600 to 700 BC, writer,
s0201l-CONFUCIUS born 551 BC-479 BC in Qufu, China, at beginning of 100 Schools of Thought, Chinese thinker and social philosopher,
s0202l-AESOP born around 550 BC, writer of fables,
s0203l-SUN TZU 544 BC,
s0204l-AESCHYLUS born 525-456 BC in Eleusis, Greece, writer,
s0205l-SOPHOCLES born 495-406 BC in Colonus Hippius in Attica, Greece, writer,
s0206l-PROTAGORAS born 481-11 BC in Abdera, Thrace, Greece, writer,
s0207l-EURIPIDES born 480-406 BC in Salamis, Greece, writer,
s0208l-SOCRATES born 470 BC in Athens, Greece, philosopher, orator,
s0209l-ARISTOPHANES born 446-388 BC in Kudathenaion, Greece, writer,
s0210l-PLATO born (maybe Aristocles) 427 BC in Athens, Greece, writer,
s0211l-XENOPHON was born 427 BC in Athens, Greece, writer,
s0212l-DIOGENES of Sinope born 412-323 BC in Sinop, Turkey, writer,
s0213l-ARISTOTLE born 384 BC was a Greek, writer,
s0214c-ALEXANDER THE GREAT born 7/20/356 BC-6/10/323 BC in Pella, Macedonia, Greece, son of King Philip II of Macedon, was an Ancient Greek king of Macedon 336-323 BC, he was one of the most successful military commanders in history, was undefeated in battle, boyhood tutor was Aristotle,
s0214l-MENANDER born 342-291 BC in Athens, Greece, writer,
s0215l-PLAUTUS born Titus Macchius Plautus about 254 BC in Sarsina, Italy, writer,
s0215p-HANNIBAL born 247 BC-183 BC in Carthage, Carthaginian military commander and tactician, credited as one of the finest commanders in history, General, commander-in-chief of the Carthaginian armies, Battles and Wars-Second Punic War 218-182 BC: Battle of Lake Trasimene, Battle of Trebia, Battle of Cannae, Battle of Zama, defeated the Romans in a series of battles, after the war he spent time planting olive trees,
s0216l-MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO born 1/3/106 BC-12/7/43 BC, orator, wrtier,
s0217h-HEROD-Herod the Great born 73 BC to 4 BC, was a Roman client king of Judaea, headed colossal building projects in Jerusalem, helped in Massacre of the Innocents,
s0217l-VIRGIL born Publius Vergilius Maro 10/15/70 BC-9/21/19 BC in Andes, Italy, writer,
s0218e-HEROD ANTIPAS born 20 BC to 39 AD Samaria, son of Herod the Great, leader of Galilee and Perea, according to Gospel, Herod was incited to behead John the Baptist by Herodias his wife and her daughter, and later did the dance of the 7 veils,
s0218k-JESUS, Jesus Christ born 12/25/8-2 BC in Bethlehem, Palestine was a teacher, philosopher, and according to Gospel son of God and Mary,
s0218l-JOHN THE BAPTIST born 6-2 BC-30 AD, the Baptizer, John the Forerunner or Precursor, was a 1st century Jewish preacher and ascetic regarded as a prophet, and possibly forerunner or at least peer of Jesus Christ,
s0219l-HOLY GRAIL, Maybe the cup Jesus drank from at the Last Supper
s0220c-PONTIUS PILATE born from 15-1 BC-36 AD was the governor of the Roman Judaea Province, man who according to canonical Christian Gospels presided over trial of Jesus and ordered crucifixion,
s0220l-PLUTARCH born Mestrius Plutarchus 46 AD-127 AD in Chaeronea, Boeotia (now Greece), historian, writer,
s0221l-PTOLEMY born Claudius Ptolemaeus 90 AD-168 AD and lived in Roman Egypt, astronomer,
s0221m-ATTILA the HUN born 406 AD-453 AD, also known as Scourge of God was Khan of the Huns, one of the most fearsome of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires' enemies, remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity,