agesilaus ii

Birthplace of Infamy; An old house in Maryland -- home to America's greatest tragic actors and an actor in America's greatest tragedy -- has never lost its power to impassion. The Washington Post (2/4/2001)
...Marylander who had been a decorated Army medic in World War II, a harness racing driver and then restorer of historic houses...slept on a straw pillow, like his hero, the Spartan general Agesilaus. He hung his swords, pistols, daggers and blunderbuss on...