In Homer's Iliad, a close wartime companion of Achilles.

The primary patron saint of Ireland. In legend, he banished all snakes from the island.

Pasta was an Italian operatic soprano whose vocal and physical expressiveness revolutionized opera and made her the foremost performer of her day.

Poet, translator, and classicist. His best regarded narrative poem, "The Hermit," appeared in Poems on Several Occasions (1721). Parnell was one of the contributors to the Spectator and the Guardian.

Fifth century BCE Greek philosopher.

Student contributor.

The Greek equivalent of the Roman deity Lupercus, Pan is the deity of fertility and the wild, including shepherds and their flocks, mountain wilds, and rustic music. Pan was typically represented as a lustful figure sharing the ears, horns, and legs of a goat, often accompanied by nymphs.

Heroine of Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740).

née Echlin, she was the daughter of Lady Echlin.

The most important reform writer of the late eighteenth century. His revolutionary writings made him a hero of the American revolution. His works were plentiful, but he is most remembered for Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (1776), encouraging American independence from England; The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (1791 with a second part issued in 1792); and The Age of Reason (1793), an attack on Christianity that Paine published from France, where he fled on being alerted of his impending arrest for sedition.