Table of contents : Publisher’s Note Contributors Key to Pronunciation Complete List of Contents List of Maps and Tables Maps of the Ancient World Ancient World Aaron Abraham Aeschylus Aesop Agesilaus II of Sparta Gnaeus Julius Agricola Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Agrippina the Younger Akhenaton Akiba ben Joseph Alcibiades of Athens Alcmaeon Alexander the Great Saint Ambrose Amenhotep III Ananda Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes of Miletus Saint Anthony of Egypt Antigonus I Monophthalmos Antiochus the Great Antisthenes Antonia Minor Marc Antony Apollonius of Perga Archimedes Aretaeus of Cappadocia Aristippus Aristophanes Aristotle Aristoxenus Arminius Arria the Elder Arria the Younger Arsinoe II Philadelphus Artemisia I Asanga Asclepiades of Bithynia Ashurbanipal Ashumasirpal II Asoka Aspasia of Miletus Asvaghosa Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Atossa Attila Saint Augustine Augustus Ban Gu Ban Zhao Bathsheba Berenice II Bodhidharma Boudicca Marcus Junius Brutus Buddha Julius Caesar Caligula Callimachus Cao Cao Cassius Catiline Cato the Censor Cato the Younger Catullus Aulus Cornelius Celsus Chandragupta Maurya Saint Christopher Saint John Chrysostom Cicero Cimon Claudius I Cleisthenes of Athens Clement I Cleomenes Cleopatra VII Clodia Confucius Constantine the Great Croesus Ctesibius of Alexandria Cyrus the Great Darius the Great David Deborah Democritus Demosthenes Saint Denis Dido Dio Cassius Diodes of Carystus Diocletian Diogenes Diophantus Pedanius Dioscorides Draco Empedocles Enheduanna Quintus Ennius Epaminondas Epicurus Erasistratus Eratosthenes of Cyrene Euclid Eudoxus of Cnidus Eupalinus of Megara Euripides Eusebius of Caesarea Ezana Ezekiel Ezra Fabius Faxian Galen Genseric Gosala Maskariputra Gracchi Gregory of Nazianzus Gregory of Nyssa Gudea Hadrian Hamilcar Barca Hammurabi Hanfeizi Hannibal Hanno Hatshepsut Saint Helena Hengist Heraclitus of Ephesus Hero of Alexandria Herod the Great Herodotus Herophilus Hesiod Hipparchus Hippocrates Hippolytus of Rome Homer Horace Hypatia Ignatius of Antioch Imhotep Saint Irenaeus Isaiah Isocrates Jeremiah Saint Jerome Jesus Jimmu Tenno Jingu Johanan ben Zakkai John the Apostle Saint John the Baptist Flavius Josephus Julia Domna Julia Mamaea Julia Soaemias Julia III Juvenal Kalidasa Kanishka Laozi Leonidas Livia Drusilla Livy Lucian Lucretia Lucretius Lysippus