Classical Biographies: Containing Xenophon; Dionysius The Elder; Dionysius The Younger; Timoleon; Mithridates (1869) is a book written by Jacob Henry B. Mountain. The book is a collection of biographies of five prominent figures from ancient Greece and Rome. The first biography is about Xenophon, a Greek historian and philosopher who lived in the 4th century BC. The second biography is about Dionysius the Elder, a tyrant of Syracuse who ruled in the...