Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Frank Adcock
Born: April 15, 1886
Died: February 22, 1968 (aged 81)
Bio: Sir Frank Ezra Adcock was a British classical historian who was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge between 1925 and 1951.
Known for:
- The Greek and Macedonian art of war (1957)
- Diplomacy in ancient Greece
- The Roman art of war under the republic (1940)
- Caesar as Man of Letters (1956)
- Roman Political Ideas and Practice (1959)
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