Quote of the day
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
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)








