469 BCE — Socrates is born
Socrates is one of the most influential, and also most enigmatic, figures in Western Philosophy. An Athenian who lived at...
December 14, 2022
Art & Culture
May 26, 428 BCE — Plato is born
Oddly, not the Platonic Ideal of the philosopher (although in fairness, he would have been the first to point that...
December 9, 2022
April 16, 384 BCE — Aristotle is born
The third of the three great Ancient Greek philosophers was the student of Plato (who, in his turn, had been...
December 4, 2022
February 14, 44 BCE — Julius Caesar attends his final Lupercalia
The ancient feast of the god Lupercus, Lupercalia was an annual three day festival that ran from February 13 –...
October 14, 2022
July 18, 64 — Nero fiddles while Rome burns
It’s an iconic image, symbolising madness, decadence and a corrupt lust for power. But did it actually happen? In all...
June 24, 2022
May 18, 1048 — Omar Khayyám is born
One of the most well-known Middle Eastern poets in the West, largely due to an apparently never-ending series of translations...
April 29, 2022
October 12, 1492 — Piero della Francesca dies
Piero della Francesca was an Italian painter, best known for his cycle of frescoes “The History of the True Cross”...
February 27, 2022
1533 — Hans Holbein draws a portrait sketch of Anne Boleyn
Or did he? This sketch, while definitely the work of Hans Holbein the Younger, may have been created as late...
February 16, 2022
1537 — Hans Holbein paints a portrait of Jane Seymour
Holbein had been in England for a while at this point, and had painted a portrait of Anne Boleyn for...
February 12, 2022
1538 — Hans Holbein paints a portrait of Anna of Cleves
In 1538, Han Holbein the Younger painted what would become his most controversial work, a portrait of Anna of Cleves....
February 6, 2022
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