Pliny the Younger (c. 61/62-113), like his uncle Pliny the Elder (c. 23-79), was a man of well-rounded scholarly interests, including natural history. The...
Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)
"He was of sovereign in all eyes.
And though so much distinguished, he was wise
And in his bearing modest as a maid.
He never...
Apuleius (125-170)
"You aren't really rich if nobody knows that you are."
From The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses (Book 5) by Apuleius, translated by E....
Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)
"The modern world presents the extraordinary spectacle of almost everybody wishing to prevent or avoid war, and yet war coming remorselessly...
