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Flourished c.499 BCE - c.400 BCE
Quintilian
Roman rhetorician
Isocrates
Greek orator and rhetorician
Lucian
Greek writer
Antiphon
Greek writer and statesman
Isaeus
Greek speech writer
Lysias
Greek writer
Herodes Atticus, marble bust by an unknown artist; in the Louvre, Paris
Herodes Atticus
Greek orator and author
Dio Chrysostom
Greek philosopher
Longinus
Greek literary critic
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Greek historian
Libanius
Greek rhetorician
Caecilius of Calacte
Greek rhetorician
Gorgias of Leontini
Greek Sophist
Gaius Asinius Pollio
Roman historian and orator
Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Roman orator
Eumenius
Roman orator and teacher
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman author
Ion of Chios
Greek poet
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Homer
Homer
Greek poet

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