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Herod the Great (73 - 4 B.C.)
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.

Tarquin the Proud - Tarquinius Superbus
Biography of Publius Valerius Publicola

Coriolanus Biography
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 perhaps unfairly at the hands of his fellow Romans.

Alaric
Alaric the Visigoth article from the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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