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Callimachus was the greatest Hellenistic era poet and father of librarians.

Profile of Callinus of Ephesus.

Carinus, son of the Roman emperor Carus and brother of the Roman emperor Numerian was a Roman emperor who was killed by his own troops and succeeded by Emperor Diolcetian.

Glossary entry on Lord George Carnarvon who is known for his connection with the Egyptian mummy's curse.

Cassander was one of the diadochoi, the successors of Alexander the Great.

Basics on Catiline whose name is familiar from a famous Roman conspiracy.

Article by Bingley on M. Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder or Cato the Censor), who was a 2nd Century B.C. Roman politician, general, and writer noted for his austere way of life and rigid principles. It was he who convinced Rome that Carthage must be destroyed in the Punic Wars. He also homeschooled his son.

Cato the Elder or Cato the Censor was the man who said Carthage must be destroyed.

A brief look at the Roman statesman Cato the Younger.

Plutarch's life of Cato the Younger.

Celsus was a 1st century A.D. Roman encyclopedist who wrote on the topic of medicine.

Profile of early Church father, St. John Chrysostom of Constantinople.

Cimon gave up his illicit lover when an opportunity presented to marry her off to someone who could pay off a family debt. Cimon is also one of the few Athenians who was actually ostracized, but he was also a leading Athenian general and probably a cousin of the historian Thucydides.

Cleisthenes was an Athenian statesman credited with a major set of democratic reforms.

An early Republican leader, Cincinnatus was a model of Roman virtue.

Clement of Alexandria was an ante-Nicene Christian theologian.

Plutarch's life of Cleomenes.

 

Clitus (or Black Clitus) was a Macedonian officer born around 375 B.C. Alexander the Great killed him in 328.

Constantine III was a Roman Emperor in the early fifth century.

When the Roman Coriolanus fled to the Volscians, they were happy to have a competent general to lead them against the Romans. Coriolanus would have done so, too, had not his mother stepped in the way.

Plutarch's life of Coriolanus.

Coriolanus was one of the famous Romans whose biography was written by Plutarch. More famous than Plutarch's biography is Shakepeare's Coriolanus, a Roman military leader who suffered unfairly at the hands of his fellow Romans.

Plutarch's life of Crassus.

Bingley's biography of Crassus.

Ctesius was a Greek physician and historian who wrote 23 books on the history of Babylonia, Assyria, and the Persian Empire to 398 B.C. His sources were Persian archives. Based on what he heard at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II Mnemon from 404 to 398/7, Ctesius wrote a history of India.

These two men, a tyrant and a law giver, were steps along the Athenian road to democracy.