Gaius Sallust Crispus was a direct witness to the transformation of the small Roman republic into the vast empire we remember today. He saw how the republican constitution collapsed by not being able to articulate a system adapted to the conquests that were taking place. The hegemony of the Senate g
Born near Grenoble in 1476, Pierre de Terrail, Lord of Bayard, served his apprenticeship as a young nobleman as a page to the Duke of Savoy; then he went into the service of the kings of France. He will become the “Knight without fear and without reproach”. His name has always been synonymous with u
Gordon Vere Childe was born on April 14, 1892, in Sydney, Australia. He studied there and graduated from the university in his hometown, from which he transferred to Oxford. At first he was interested in classical philology but under the influence of professors A. Evans and J. Myres he turned to pre
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 – 1921) was an American astronomer. His important discovery about the periodic brightness variations of Cepheid stars has allowed astronomers to measure great distances in the universe, including those separating the Earth from very distant galaxies. The “Harvard Comput