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Greek epic poet, supposedly met the Muses, wrote "Works and Days" and "Theogony".
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Hesiod
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Roman orator, philosopher and politician, famous for his speeches against the conspiracy of Catilina
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Cicero
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Roman poet, protege of Mecenas and author of four books of odes.
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Horace
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Athenian playwright, wrote "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone".
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Sophocles
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Athenian politician of 7th/6th c. BCE, famous for redesigning Athenian politics and introducing first democratic elements into it. He was also a renown author of elegies.
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Solon
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The teacher of all Greece and the most important epic poet.
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Homer
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Roman historian; in his book he described the history of Rome from the foundation of the city.
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Livy
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The first known Roman lyric poet, famous both for his emotional poetry to an unfaithful lover (called Lesbia) and for his witty, sarcastic poems on enemies and politicians.
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Catullus
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Greek biographer and philosopher, living under Imperial Romal rule; in one of his books he compares the lives of famous Greeks with famous Romans.
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Plutarch
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Athenian orator and politician; first he warned his compatriots against Philip of Macedon, to become later a sworn enemy of Philip's son, Alexander.
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Demosthenes
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The student of Socrates and a founder of Academy in Athens, he is the source of the myth of Atlantis.
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Plato
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Roman poet, living in the late Republican era; he wrote a learned poem based on Epicurean philosophy.
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Lucretius
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A secretary to an emperor, this Roman biographer composed a set of lives of Caesars, most of them rather gossipy.
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Suetonius
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A poet from the island of Lesbos, she wrote a number of poems describing her passionate feelings for her female students.
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Sappho
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Roman playwright, the most popular author of comedies; Shakespeare reworked one of his plays in "The Comedy of Errors".
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Plautus
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Greek tragic poets, believed by many Athenians to be scandalous and too modern for their tastes. He wrote, among others, "Medea" and "Bacchae".
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Euripides
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