User:Patrick Brown

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
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I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1969, and with a few breaks have lived there ever since. For several years I researched, wrote and maintained the Ulster Cycle website, currently bring reconstructed here, collecting the stories from this fascinating series of stories from Irish heroic legend. From there I developed interests in other mythologies, early Irish and British history, and from Roman Britain to Roman history generally. I'm also a cartoonist, with interests in illustration and comics art, and my webcomics, including the current one, The Cattle Raid of Cooley, an adaptation of the Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, can be seen here.

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•  Achilles: Greek hero who fought and died in the Trojan War. ^[e]
•  Actaeon: Legendary hunter in Greek myth, killed by the goddess Artemis after he saw her naked. ^[e]
•  Acusilaus: Ancient Greek historian and mythographer. ^[e]
•  Asclepiodotus of Alexandria: Pagan Greek Neoplatonist philosopher. ^[e]
•  Cassius Asclepiodotus: Bithynian nobleman with influence in the courts of the Roman emperors Nero and Galba. ^[e]
•  Asclepiodotus of Heraclea: Macedonian commander of a contingent of Gauls in the Third Macedonian War of the 2nd century BC. ^[e]
•  Julius Asclepiodotus: A Roman praetorian prefect who served under the emperors Aurelian, Probus and Diocletian and was consul in 292. ^[e]
•  Asclepiodotus of Lesbos: Ally of Mithridates VI of Pontus in his wars against the Romans in the 1st century BCE. ^[e]
•  Asclepiodotus (physician): A physician, mathematician and musician of the late 5th century AD, who was best known for promoting the medicinal uses of white hellebore. ^[e]
•  Asclepiodotus (Stoic): A Greek Stoic philosopher of the 1st century BCE. ^[e]
•  Boudica: Queen of the British Iceni who led a revolt against the Roman occupation in AD 60 or 61. ^[e]
• Britain, history: Add brief definition or description
•  Carausius: Roman officer of Gaulish origins who declared himself emperor of a short-lived breakaway empire in Britain and Gaul in the 3rd century. ^[e]
•  Julius Caesar: Roman general and politician who conquered Gaul, won a civil war, and was assassinated in 44BC. ^[e]
•  Eddie Campbell: (born Glasgow, 10 August 1955) A Scottish-born comics artist who lives in Australia, best known as the illustrator of Alan Moore's Jack the Ripper graphic novel From Hell. ^[e]
•  Caratacus: British king who resisted the Romans in the first century AD. ^[e]
•  Claudia Rufina: British woman living in Rome in the late first century, mentioned in Martial's Epigrams. ^[e]
•  Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus: British king of the first century AD, loyal to Rome. ^[e]
•  Conaire Mór: Legendary prehistoric High King of Ireland, surrounded by contradictory traditions. ^[e]
•  Conall Cernach: A hero of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. ^[e]
•  Conn Cétchathach: Legendary prehistoric Irish king, said to be the ancestor of many important medieval dynasties. ^[e]
•  Connacht: Western province of Ireland. ^[e]
•  Connachta: A group of early Irish dynasties who gave their name to the province of Connacht. ^[e]
•  Cormac mac Airt: Legendary prehistoric Irish king famed for his just judgements, counted as an ancestor of many medieval dynasties. ^[e]
•  Cú Chulainn: The teenage hero of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, sometimes referred to as "the Irish Achilles" for his choice of a short but glorious life. ^[e]
•  Cunobelinus: British king of the early 1st century AD. ^[e]
•  Eochu Feidlech: According to medieval Irish legends and historical traditions, a High King of Ireland of the 1st or 2nd century BC. ^[e]
•  Aulus Didius Gallus: Roman senator, general and engineer of the 1st century BC, who governed Sicily and Britain and was curator of Rome's aqueducts. ^[e]
•  Geoffrey of Monmouth: Welsh medieval author of the largely legendary History of the Kings of Britain. ^[e]
•  Great Britain: The largest part of the United Kingdom, comprising England, Scotland, Wales and islands immediately off their coasts. ^[e]
•  Irish Mythological Cycle: A body of early Irish literature which includes origin stories and tales of the supposed gods of pre-Christian Ireland. ^[e]
•  Irish mythology: The remnants of the mythology of the pre-Christian Irish, preserved in altered form in Christian times. ^[e]
•  Charles Keeping: 20th century British illustrator and children's author ^[e]
•  Labraid Loingsech: Legendary prehistoric Irish king, considered the ancestor of the Laigin of Leinster. ^[e]
•  Laigin: A population group of early Ireland who gave their name to the province of Leinster. ^[e]
•  Lug mac Ethlenn: Evident deity from Irish mythology, perhaps equivalent to the Roman Mercury. ^[e]
•  Mamurra: Roman military officer and engineer who served under Julius Caesar. ^[e]
•  Mike McMahon: British comics artist, best known for his work on 2000 AD. ^[e]
•  Lucius Cornelius Merula (consul 87 BC): Politician and priest of the late Roman Republic. ^[e]
•  Morrígan: Apparent goddess from Irish mythology, associated with war, death, cattle and prophesy. ^[e]
•  Niall Noígiallach: Legendary and probably historical Irish king of the 5th century, and eponymous ancestor of the Uí Néill dynasties. ^[e]
•  Nodens: A Romano-British Celtic deity associated with healing, the sea, hunting and dogs. ^[e]
•  Nuadu Airgetlám: Silver-handed Irish mythological hero and apparent deity, related to the Romano-British god Nodens. ^[e]
•  Aulus Plautius: Roman politician and general of the mid-1st century CE that led the conquest of Britain in 43 CE. ^[e]
•  Táin Bó Cúailnge: "The Cattle Raid of Cooley", central epic of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. ^[e]
•  Ulaid: A people of prehistoric and early historical Ireland, who gave their name to the province of Ulster. ^[e]
•  Ulster Cycle: A body of early Irish heroic sagas set in prehistory during the reign of Conchobar mac Nessa over the Ulaid. ^[e]
•  Venutius: A 1st century king of the Brigantes of northern Britain. ^[e]