1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

Who was Iphigenia? What did Cincinnatus do? A thousand gods, heroes and tyrants of the classical world, each explained in the time it takes to read a text message.

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3 characters in this part of 1000 Classical Characters.

Quadrifrons

A surname of Janus. It is said that after the conquest of the Faliscans an image of Janus was found with four foreheads. Hence a temple of…

Quintus Curtius Rufus

A Latin historian supposed to have lived in the reign of Vespasian. He wrote a history of the reign of Alexander the Great. This work is…

Quirinus

A Sabine word, perhaps derived from quiris, a lance or spear. It occurs first of all as the name of Romulus, after he had been raised to…

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