Biography

Sunday, 7 June 2026

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Hypatia
She did not get involved in religious or political disputes.
Hypatia lived during the spread of the Christian faith, but remained a pagan (non-practising) hersel ...
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Gaius Julius Caesar
He was appointed Flamen Dialis, high priest of Jupiter.
He obtained this position in late 87 or early 86 BC.
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Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist.
He lived from 1904 to 1967.
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Aristotle
After Pythias’ death, Aristotle entered a relationship with a woman named Herpyllis.
It is thought she may have been a former slave of Aristotle’s first wife, although records show that ...
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Salvador Dali
He appeared in restaurants in the company of his cat.
Babou was an ocelot, which Dali acquired in 1960 from a Colombian notable. He took him for walks in a collar richly encrusted with precious stones.
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Aristotle
Aristotle tutored several crown heads.
Apart from Alexander the Great, who was one of the most prominent rulers of Macedonia, Aristotle tut ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
As a result of conquests, by 1812 France had expanded its territory to 750,000 square kilometers.
To its territory, it added Belgium, the Netherlands, the German provinces on the North Sea, the Illy ...
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Aristotle
Aristotle was the first ancient philosopher who would rely on science and logic.
Other great thinkers of his time, such as Socrates and Plato, discarded Aristotle’s fondness for factual and scientific reasoning in favor of philosophical thought.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Vivaldi composed the Four Seasons based on anonymous sonnets, each named after one of the seasons.
There is an assumption that he is the author of them. The score indicates which sonnet passages refer to which part of the music.
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Aristotle
As a reward for teaching his son, Philip II of Macedon freed the inhabitants of Aristotle’s hometown of Stagira from slavery.
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