Aristophanes | Biography

By Kedar N. Sharma

July 25, 2026

Aristophanes was born in 448 B.C. and was supposed to die in 388 B.C. Aristophanes was the son of Philippus, of the Deme Cydathenaus. It was uncertain where he was born. He was a contemporary...

Sophocles | Biography

By Kedar N. Sharma

July 24, 2026

Sophocles was one of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Euripides. Unlike his younger contemporary, the often-misunderstood Euripides, Sophocles had the fortune of being revered for his...

Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke | Biography

By Kedar N. Sharma

July 12, 2026

Rupert Brooke was a poet born to distinction. Son of a Rugby master, he studied at his father’s school and at King’s College, Cambridge, and won many academic honors. He was born into a well-to-do-academic...