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Homer was the most important and earliest of the Greek and Roman writers.

Herod the Great. In Antiquities of the Jews - Book XIV, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus explains how Herod the Great came to be king of the Jews.

Horace (December 8, 65 - November 27, 8 B.C.), another Roman satirist, provides autiobiographical information in his poetry, from which we learn that he was the son of a freedman coactor argentarius 'auction broker and publicanus 'tax collector'. Another source for his life is Suetonius.

Hippocrates of Chios, who lived about the same time as the medical Hippocrates, wrote the first known work on geometry.

In 1998 Israel turned 50, so it is a relatively young country. But visitors there can find traces of events that occurred in the region some 2,000 years ago, when Herod was King of Judea.

Information on the Babylonian king Hammurabi who is well-known for his legal decisions, the Code of Hammurabi.

Hephaestion was a friend and possible gay lover of Alexander the Great.

Hercules is such a popular figure from Greek mythology that you have undoubtedly heard of him or seen him in movies or on the television. If you want to know the basic facts and events of his life, here is the basic information the media uses to portray the demigod.