La Brújula Verde: Marcus Terentius Varro, the Roman scholar who conceived the existence of microorganisms sixteen centuries before their discovery
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Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro was a Roman polymath and a prolific author. He is regarded as ancient Rome's greatest scholar, and was described by Petrarch as "the third great light of Rome". He is sometimes called Varro Reatinus to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinus.
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culture · Roman polymath and author (116–27 BC) · writer · poet · music theorist · philosopher · historian · grammarian · annalist · military personnel · scholar · also Marcus Terentius Varro, Varro Reatinus, Marcus Terentius Varro Reatinus, Varro
Born 116 BC · Died 27 BC · Q206119
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