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Hesychius Of Miletus
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Flourished c.501 - c.600
Notable Works “Historia Romaike te kai pantodape” • “Onomatologos ē pinax tōn en paideia onomastōn”
Subjects Of Study universal history
George the Monk
Byzantine historian
George The Syncellus
Byzantine historian
Bana
Indian writer
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
Michael Glycas
Byzantine historian and theologian
John Malalas
Byzantine chronicler
George Sphrantzes
Byzantine historian
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Livy
Livy
Roman historian
Adams, Henry
Henry Adams
American historian
al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
Robert Caro
Robert Caro
American historian and author
James Anthony Froude
British historian
David McCullough
David McCullough
American historian
Allan Nevins
American author
Sir Isaiah Berlin
British historian
A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
English scholar, preacher, and author

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