Aeëtes. Greek. Medea’s father. Guardian of Golden Fleece.

Aegeus. King of Athens. Theseus’ father. Suicide.

Aelfric. c955-1010. Anglo-Saxon writer. Love of the Saints.

Aeolus. Greek king (later, god) of the winds.

Aeschylus. 524-456BC. Founded Greek tragic drama. Introduced 2nd actor, reduced chorus. Prometheus Bound. Seven Against Thebes, 467.

Aetolian League. 4-2C BC. Confederation of Greek city states, led by Thebes.

Aggression. 1974 UN Definition-Use of armed force against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another state.

Agnosticism. Huxley’s term for not knowing whether God exists or not.

Alberti, Leon. 1404-72. Italian Renaissance Man. Artist, poet, geographer, mathematician.

Alchemy. Magic art of Egyptian origin attempting to transmute metals, esp lead to gold. Based on belief that all metals are a pure base metal + impurities which the philosopher’s stone can remove.

Alcibiades. c450-404BC. Athenian egoist general, Peloponnesian War. Murdered.

Alcmaeonidae. 7-5C BC. Prominent Athenian family. Pericles.

Alden, John. c1599-1687. Pilgrim father. Married Priscilla Mullens.

Aldermaston March. 1958-64. Annual ‘Ban the Bomb’ demonstration of CND.

Alexis. 1629-76. Russian czar 1645-. Recognized serfdom. Northern War. Peasant Revolt 1667-71.

Alfred the Great. 849-99. Saxon King of Wessex 871-. Resisted Danes 877-79 (Edington) + 892-96. Captured London 886. First British Navy 897.

All the Talents. 1806. English government under Grenville.

Althusius, Johannes. 1557-1638. German jurist. “Father of Federalism”.

Amiens Cathedral. 1220-1270. Romanesque/Gothic.

Amphion. Thebian king with magic lyre.

An. Sumerian god of heaven, father of all gods.

Anarchism, Communistic. Marxist revolutionary version of anarchism that seeks to overthrow the state. Bakunin. Kropotkin. Assassinated: Sadi-Carnot, Empress Elizabeth, Umberto I, McKinley.

Anne, St. Mother of Mary.

Anne of Bretagne. 1477-1514. Wife of Charles VIII, 1491, then of Louis XII, 1499. Began union of Brittany with France.

Antisthenes. c445-365BC. Greek philosopher. Founder of Cynics.

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