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Memoirists
- Julius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar entered the world on 12 or the 13th of July 100 BC into a family claiming ancient divine lineage. His clan traced its roots to Julus, son…
- XenophonXenophon of Athens was born in the deme of Erchia during the Peloponnesian War. His father Gryllus belonged to an Athenian aristocratic family that valued…
- SullaLucius Cornelius Sulla Felix was born in Rome around 138 BC into a branch of the patrician gens Cornelia that had fallen to poverty.