Biography Category
( s k´r t z) (KEY) , 436–338 B.C., one of the Ten Attic Orators. He was a pupil of Socrates and of the Sophists. Perhaps the greatest teacher in Gr...
( ´s pl th´´) (KEY) , line drawn on a map through all points of equal value of some measurable quantity. In many meteorologic, oceanographic, or ge...
(n är´k s) (KEY) , fl. 324 B.C., Macedonian general, b. Crete; friend of Alexander the Great. In 325 B.C., Alexander, about to leave India, had a fl...
( zôn´ts ) (KEY) , river, 87 mi (140 km) long, rising in the Julian Alps, NW Slovenia, and flowing S through Slovenia, where it is known as the So a...
( z´ dôr´´) (KEY) , c.560–636, Spanish churchman and encyclopedist, bishop of Seville, Doctor of the Church. Born of a noble Hispano-Roman famil...
( s´m n) (KEY) , athletic events organized c.581 B.C. They were held at Corinth in the spring of the first and third years of the Olympiad, and they...