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Oswald Spengler

Historians May 18, 2019

Oswald Spengler : biography May 29, 1880 - May 8, 1936 In his private papers, Spengler denounced Nazi anti-Semitism in even stronger terms, writing "and...

Oswald Spengler

Historians May 18, 2019

Oswald Spengler : biography May 29, 1880 - May 8, 1936 Spengler's works Der metaphysische Grundgedanke der Heraklitischen Philosophie, 1904. Der...

Oswald Spengler

Historians May 18, 2019

Oswald Spengler : biography May 29, 1880 - May 8, 1936 After his father's death in 1901 Spengler attended several universities (Munich, Berlin, and Halle)...

Procopius

Historians May 18, 2019

Procopius : biography 500 - 565 Procopius of Caesarea (Latin: Procopius Caesarensis, ; c. AD 500 – c. AD 565) was a prominent...

Procopius

Historians May 18, 2019

Procopius : biography 500 - 565 Later, Procopius added an eighth book (Wars VIII or Gothic War IV), which brings the history to 552/553, when...

Procopius

Historians May 18, 2019

Procopius : biography 500 - 565 It is not known when Procopius himself died, and many historians (James Howard-Johnson, Averil Cameron, Geoffrey Greatrex) date his...

Polybius

Historians May 18, 2019

Polybius : biography 200 BC - Polybius ( c. 200–c. 118 BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for...

Polybius

Historians May 18, 2019

Polybius : biography 200 BC - Polybius has been noted to be hostile to some of his subject material. H Ormerod considers that Polybius...

Polybius

Historians May 18, 2019

Polybius : biography 200 BC - Rome In the succeeding years, Polybius resided in Rome, completing his historical work while occasionally undertaking long journeys...

Polybius

Historians May 18, 2019

Polybius : biography 200 BC - Livy made reference to and uses Polybius' The Histories as source material in his own narrative. Polybius was...