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Alhamazad the Wise - see List of Greyhawk characters; Ansem the Wise, one the characters of Kingdom Hearts; Darth Plagueis the Wise, mentioned in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith; Fintan mac Bóchra, a seer in Irish mythology; the title character of the play Nathan the Wise; Russano the Wise, from several Redwall novels
The Swedish cunning woman Gertrud Ahlgren of Gotland (1782–1874), drawing by Pehr Arvid Säve 1870. In Scandinavia, the klok gumma ("wise woman") or klok gubbe ("wise man"), and collectively De kloka ("The Wise ones"), as they were known in Swedish, were usually elder members of the community who acted as folk healers and midwives as well as using folk magic such as magic rhymes. [11]
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
Homo narrans ('storytelling human') is one of a number of binomial names for the human species modelled on the commonly used term Homo sapiens ('wise human'). The term posits the primacy of storytelling over, for example, language or reasoning, in differentiating Homo sapiens from other species of the genus Homo.
Conducted on such principles, the Biography of great men, especially of great Poets, that is, of men in the highest degree noble-minded and wise, might become one of the most dignified and valuable species of composition. [19] More recently, in his 1943 book The Hero in History, the pragmatist scholar Sidney Hook asserts:
The Hurrians refer to a people who inhabited northern Mesopotamia beginning approximately 2500 BC. The Hurrian kingdoms of the Ancient Near East was in Northern Mesopotamia and its people lived in the adjacent regions during the Bronze Age. [9] The largest and most influential Hurrian nation was the kingdom of Mitanni.
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Plutarch's The Dinner of the Seven Wise Men, in the Loeb Classical Library. Seven Sages of Greece with illustrations and further links. Jona Lendering's article Seven Sages includes a chart of various canonical lists. Sentences of the Seven Sages; Fragment of a poem in which the Seven Wise Men were mentioned together, from Oxyrhynchus Papyri