Quote of the day
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
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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