Quote of the day
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Michael Rostovtzeff
Born: November 10, 1870
Died: October 20, 1952 (aged 81)
Bio: Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev was an ancient historian whose career straddled the 19th and 20th centuries and who produced important works on ancient Roman and Greek history. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Science.
Known for:
- Iranians & Greeks in South Russia (1922)
- Mystic Italy (1927)
- Caravan cities







