Quote of the day
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
N. G. L. Hammond

Born: November 15, 1907
Died: March 24, 2001 (aged 93)
Bio: Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond was a British scholar of ancient Greece and an operative for the British Special Operations Executive in occupied Greece during World War II.
Known for:
- The genius of Alexander the Great (1997)
- A history of Greece to 322 B.C. (1959)
- The Macedonian State (1989)
- Three Historians of Alexander the Great (1983)
- Sources for Alexander the Great (1993)