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Anna Komnene
1083 - c. 1153 · Byzantine Empire (Constantinople, modern Istanbul)
Anna Komnene was a Byzantine princess and historian. The Byzantine Empire was the eastern continuation of the Roman Empire. It survived for a thousand years…
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"Time, in its irresistible and ceaseless flow, carries off and submerges all that has come into being and plunges it…"
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Ban Zhao
c. 45-c. 117 CE · China (Han dynasty)
Ban Zhao was a Chinese historian, poet, and teacher of the Eastern Han dynasty. She is the first known woman historian of China. She was…
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"Yet only to teach men and not to teach women — is this not ignoring the essential relationship between them?"
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C.L.R. James
1901-1989 · Trinidad and Tobago
Cyril Lionel Robert James was a Trinidadian historian, political thinker, novelist, and cricket writer. He is one of the most important intellectuals the Caribbean has…
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"What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?"
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Sima Qian
c. 145 BCE - c. 86 BCE · Han China (modern Shaanxi province)
Sima Qian was a Chinese historian and writer. He lived from around 145 BCE to about 86 BCE, during the Western Han dynasty. He is…
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"I have committed myself to writing the history of all that has happened from the time of the Yellow Emperor…"
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