Biography Category
(y h m´ r s) (KEY) , fl. c.300 B.C., Cyrenaic philosopher, b. Sicily. He is famous for a theory of mythology embodied in his philosophical romance, S...
(d j´ n z l ör´sh s) (KEY) , fl. early 3d cent., Greek biographer. Extant is a work in 10 books on the lives and opinions of the philosophers fro...
(Alberto Pacino) (p ch ´n ) (KEY) , 1940–, American actor, b. New York City, studied at the Herbert Berghof Studio and the Actors Studio, New York ...
(Jo Sternberg), 1894–1969, Austrian-American film director and screenwriter. Von Sternberg, who worked in the United States from 1925, made films th...
1892–1980, American stage and movie comedienne, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. The unparalleled mistress of double entendre, West began in burlesque and continue...
(g ´ôrkh v l´h lm fr ´dr kh h ´g l) (KEY) , 1770–1831, German philosopher, b. Stuttgart; son of a government clerk.
Life and Works
Educated i...