English clergyman, writer, traveler, and father of Joseph Addison.

A poet and dramatist as well, Addison was the most popular of early eighteenth-century periodical essayist. He collaborated with Richard Steele on the Tatler (12 April 1709 to 2 January 1711), the Guardian (12 March to 1 October 1713), and especially the Spectator (1 March 1711 to 6 December 1712; second series, 18 June to 20 December 1714). He also conducted the Free-holder (23 December 1715 to 29 June 1716), the Whig Examiner (14 September to 12 October), and The Old Whig, which survived for only two numbers (19 March and 2 April 1719).

In Greek mythology and Homer's Illiad, a Greek hero of the Trojan War whose exceptional strength and valor made him almost unconquerable. Legend had it that his mother had dipped him in the River Styx, but inadvertently left one vulnerable spot, the heel by which she held him. He was killed by an arrow shot into this heel.

Friend, father-in-law, and successor of the Prophet Muhammad and the first Calaph of Islam.

German Moravian religious and social reformer, missionary to the Americas, and prolific theological writer, Zinzendorf authored hymns, poetry, philosophical treatises, and sermons.

Zeus is the king of gods in the ancient Greek pantheon. He is often considered equivalent to the Roman deity Jupiter.

Scientific author and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Zanotti also wrote on literature. [MW}

A versatile poet, Young is best remembered for his Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality (1742-1746), which attained phenomenal popularity and went through hundreds of printings over the century following its publication. His satires were published as The Universal Passion (1725-1728) and revised as a single volume, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion (1728). He also authored the tragedies Busiris (1719), The Revenge (1721), and The Brothers (1752) as well as the poem Resignation (1762).

Popular English actress who succeeded Susannah Cibber as the country's leading tragedienne.

Persian king from 486 to 465 BCE. In revenge for the humiliation of his father, Darius I, at Marathon, Xerxes attacked Greece and briefly occupied Athens, which he sacked and pillaged. and