Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
John Pentland Mahaffy
Born: February 26, 1839
Died: April 30, 1919 (aged 80)
Bio: Sir John Pentland Mahaffy was an Irish classicist and polymathic scholar.
Known for:
- Greek Life and Thought (1887)
- Rambles & studies in Greece (1876)
- The empire of the Ptolemies (1893)
- A History of Classical Greek Literature (1880)
- Problems in Greek history (1892)