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Born c.105 BCE
Died 43 BCE
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Gnaeus Naevius
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Marcus Pacuvius
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Lucius Accius
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Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
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Kola Ogunmola
Nigerian dramatist
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
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Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin
German philologist
Marc-Antoine de Muret
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Herodas
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Thomas May
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William Alabaster
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Sophron Of Syracuse
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Howard Lindsay
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