Valerius Maximus

Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Valerius Maximus’

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An Appeal to Philip Sober Valerius Maximus

A woman convicted of a crime she did not commit took her case to a higher power.

Like his famous son Alexander the Great, Philip II, King of Macedon (r. 359-336 BC) was a Philhellene who aspired to the manners and language of the cultivated Greeks; but there remained a barbarian side to Philip which showed in his seven wives and his bouts of drinking.

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