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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Homer describes Helios as rising in the east from Oceanus, traversing the heaven, and descending in the evening into the darkness of the west and Oceanus.

Later poets have marvelously embellished this simple notion.

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