Archimedes

Family: Syracusan · Role: engineer and mathematician · First appears: Marcellus

Life events

• Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier during Syracuse's capture.(Marcellus · 📍 Syracuse)
  • “the soldier, enraged, drew his sword and ran him through.”

Marcellus

• friends with Hiero “Archimedes, however, in writing to king Hiero, whose friend and near relation he was, had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved”
• enemies with Marcus Claudius “all which, however, were, it would seem, but trifles for Archimedes and his machines.”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.