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Pepy I - Who Was Pepy I

Pepy I was a long ruling pharaoh of the 6th dynasty in ancient Egypt

Procopius

Procopius was a Byzantine official and historian best known for his unofficial secret history of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora. Prodopius also wrote a history of the decades of wars waged under Justinian.

Plutarch

Plutarch was a Greek biographer from Chaeronea in Boeotia.

Pausanias

Pausanias was a Spartan general during the Persian Wars.

Philolaus

Philolaus was a Pythagorean philosopher (c.470 - c.385) from Croton in Southern Italy, where Pythagoras had migrated. Philolaus was a contemporary of Socrates and probably the first Pythagorean to have written a book (On Nature).

Paul of Tarsus - Saul

Paul, a Pharisee and tent-maker, was on his way to Damascus to continue his mission of stamping out converts to the new Jewish sect of Christians when he experienced a vision of Jesus, which he describes in Acts 9:1 – 9. From then on he became a missionary, spreading the message of Christianity.

Porus

Porus, king of the area between the Hydaspes and the Acesines rivers, in India, met Alexander the Great at the Battle of the Hydaspes River in June 326 B.C.

Philopoemen

Philopoemen (253-184 B.C.) was a Greek general and leader of the Achaian (Achaean) League. Guest article by Bingley.

Phocion

Plutarch's life of Phocion.

Plautus

Dictionary entry on the Roman playwright, Titus Maccius Plautus.

Pliny the Elder

A biography of the life of Pliny the Elder and his death in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Poplicola

Plutarch's life of Poplicola.

Pachomius - Christian Saint Pachomius

Pachomius was a Christian saint credited with founding cenobitism.

Philip the Arab (244-249 A.D.) Roman Emperor Philip the Arab

Philip the Arab was a Roman emperor from 244-249 A.D.

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