Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 1854–1927, American educator and classical scholar, b. Randolph, Mass. Wheeler was a professor of Greek and comparative philology at Cornell before serving as president of the Univ. of California in the years of its greatest development (1899–1919). He wrote works in classics and in linguistics, among them Dionysos and Immortality (1899), Alexander the Great (1900), and The Whence and Whither of the Modern Science of Language (1905).
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Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) was the king of Macedon, the leader of the Corinthian League, and the conq…
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