Marcus Terentius Varro (Person) AKA Varro Reatinus
Marcus Terentius Varro
116 BC - 27 BC
AKA Varro Reatinus
Ancient Roman historian best known for his Varronian chronology of the Roman Republic including his date of the founding of Rome as 21 April 753 (which is almost certainly wrong, but still traditionally accepted).
However, he was a prolific scholar and author, and was likely the originator of the liberal arts, although he added medicine, architecture, and agriculture to the 7 liberal arts recognized in the middle ages
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.Rrecognized by Plutarch as "a man deeply read in Roman history"
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