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Link THE LIFE OF PLATO

There is an overview of the life of Plato in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book 3. This link takes you to a...

Plato, Diogenes Laertius, biography, Atlantis view
Link Autobiography of Mary countess of Warwick. Ed., with introduction and notes (1848)

Full text of the 1848 edition of the autobiography of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick - from Archive.org

biography, Autobiography view
Link J. Aubrey, A. Clark, "Brief lives", chiefly of contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey (Clarendon, 1898), (1 of 2 vols: A-H)

The most scholarly version yet available of John Aubrey's manuscript Brief Lives, albeit slightly bowdlerised to suit victorian tastes.

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English Civil War, biography view
Link PLUTARCH'S "LIFE OF SOLON" AND ATLANTIS

Atlantis, "The Island of Atlas", had never been mentioned anywhere in the whole of world literature until, in a fictional conversation in Plato’s...

Atlantis, Plato, Plutarch, biography, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology view
Link Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick - A Good Woman and a Great Lady

An article from History Today, by Lady Antonia Fraser

biography, Autobiography view
Link Psychology Biographies - Allpsych Online

This is a link to biographical information on a number of famous psychologists, including Freud, Adler, Eysenck, Piaget and Watson. When reading...

Psychology, biography, biographical information, Freud, Skinner, History, eysenck, Piaget view
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