The Three Musketeers is a romance by Alexandre Dumas in collaboration with Auguste Maquet. The story was first published in 1844, and is based upon the Memoires d'Artagnan by Courtels de Sandras, and is a 17th century court story centring around the witty and resourceful figure of D'Artagnan, who with his three friends the musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, engages in stupendous adventures. The Three Musketeers has a sequel in 'Le Vicomte de Bragelonne'. Research The Three Musketeers
Babrius was a Greek poet who lived during the second or third century of the Christian era. He wrote a number of AEsopian fables. Several versions of these made during the middle ages have come down to us as AEsop's fables. In 1840 a manuscript containing 120 fables by Babrius, previously unknown, was discovered on MountAthos. Research Babrius
The Caloyers are Greek monks, belonging to the order of St Basil, who lead a very austere life. Their most celebrated monastery in Asia is at MountSinai; in Europe at MountAthos. They do not all agree as to their mode of life. Some of them are cenobites; that is, they live in common. Others are anchorites, living alone, or with only one or two companions; and others again are recluses, who live in grottoes or caverns in the greatest retirement, and are supported ly alms supplied to them by the monasteries. Research Caloyer
Darius I was the fourth king of Persia. The son of Hystaspes, a prince of the royal family of the Achsemenidae, he attained the throne in 521 BC. His reign was distinguished by many important events. He reduced, after a two years' siege, the revolted city of Babylon, and led an expedition of 700,000 men against the Scythians on the Danube, from which he extricated himself after suffering great losses. To revenge himself against the Athenians who had promoted a revolt of the Ionian cities, he sent an army under Mardonius to invadeGreece. But the ships of Mardonius were destroyed by a storm in doublingMountAthos in 492 BC, and his army was cut to pieces by the Thracians. Darius, however, fitted out a second expedition of 500,000 men, which was met on the plains of Marathon by an Athenian army 10,000 strong, under Miltiades, and completely defeated in 490 BC. Darius had determined on a third expedition when he died in 485 BC. Research Darius I
DariusI was the fourth king of Persia. The son of Hystaspes, a prince of the royal family of the Achsemenidae, he attained the throne in 521 BC. His reign was distinguished by many important events. He reduced, after a two years' siege, the revolted city of Babylon, and led an expedition of 700,000 men against the Scythians on the Danube, from which he extricated himself after suffering great losses. To revenge himself against the Athenians who had promoted a revolt of the Ionian cities, he sent an army under Mardonius to invadeGreece. But the ships of Mardonius were destroyed by a storm in doublingMountAthos in 492 BC, and his army was cut to pieces by the Thracians. Darius, however, fitted out a second expedition of 500,000 men, which was met on the plains of Marathon by an Athenian army 10,000 strong, under Miltiades, and completely defeated in 490 BC. Darius had determined on a third expedition when he died in 485 BC. Research Darius I
Gregory was Patriarch of Constantinople. He was born in 1730 and died in 1821. He studied at MountAthos, lived as a hermit, was made archbishop at Smyrna, and, in 1795, Patriarch of Constantinople. He led an active, tolerant, and benevolent life, promoted schools and the art of printing. In 1798, however, and again in 1806, he was accused of intriguig for the freedom of Greece, and twice banished to MountAthos, though each time restored to his post after a short interval. But in 1821, when the Greek insurrection broke out in the Morea, his native country, he became once more an object of suspicion to the Porte, and when, shortly after, he allowed the family of Prince Morousi to escape from his guardianship, he was seized as he left the church on the first day of the Easter festival and hanged in his robes of office before the church gate. Research Gregory
Jonathan Harris was an American actor. He was born in 1914 at the Bronx, New York and died in 2002 of a blood clot in the heart. He played the role of 'Doctor Smith' in the 1960's television series 'Lost in Space' and provided the voice for Athos of the Three Musketeers' in the 1960's childrens televison show 'The Banana Splits Adventure Hour'. Research Jonathan Harris
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