Curated category
Deified men
- JesusVirtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically. This consensus stands firm despite the challenge posed by the Gospels…
- James CookJames Cook was born on the 7th of November 1728 in the village of Marton, located in the North Riding of Yorkshire. His father worked as a Scottish farm…
- AeneasAeneas is the Romanization of the hero's original Greek name Aineías. This name first appears in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite when Aphrodite gives him his…
- HomerScholars have debated the identity of Homer for centuries, yet no one knows exactly who this person was. The name Homer appears in ancient texts, but it…
- The BuddhaSiddhartha Gautama lived in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains during the 6th or 5th century BCE. Scholars remain divided on his exact birth and death dates…
- Diego MaradonaDiego Armando Maradona was born on the 30th of October 1960 at the Policlínico Evita Hospital in Lanús, Buenos Aires Province.