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Literary patron in Augustan Rome.
Last winner of the spolia opima.
Philosopher emperor of Rome.
Gaius Marius was a seven-time consul and the general who won the Jugurthine War. He married into Julius Caesar's family.
Macus Valerius Martialis was an often ribald Latin epigrammatist born in Spain.
Mary Magdalen and Joseph of Arimathea accompanied the Holy Grail.
Melania the Elder (grandmother of Melania the Younger) founded monasteries and traveled from Spain to Rome to Egypt to Jerusalem, in contact with such leaders as Jerome and Paula and Augustine of Hippo.
She and her husband gave their immense fortune to found monasteries and do other good works, and left Rome ahead of the Visigoth invasions, going on pilgrimage to and settling in Jerusalem.
Meleager of Gadara gathered Greek epigrams together into a collection known as the Garland (Stpehanos).
Menelaus was the king of Sparta. Helen, the wife of Menelaus was stolen by a prince of Troy while a guest in the palace of Menelaus.Merlin
Could there actually have been a prophet named Merlin?
The third ruler of the first Egyptian dynasty which united upper and lower Egypt is known only by name and a few objects -- but many scholars believe that this ruler was a woman.
Mimnermus was remembered as a love poet.Mithridates
King of Pontus and a thorn in Rome's side for forty years before Pompey put an end to the Pontic threat.
Poet from Byzantium who may have writtern lyric and hexameter as well as epigrams, her poetry was referred to as lilies.Return to Ancient History Major Figures Index
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