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Born c.445 BCE
Died After 380 BCE
Isaeus
Greek speech writer
Corax
Greek writer
Demosthenes
Demosthenes
Greek statesman and orator
Isocrates
Greek orator and rhetorician
Hyperides
Greek politician
Antiphon
Greek writer and statesman
aeschines
Aeschines
Greek orator
Herodes Atticus, marble bust by an unknown artist; in the Louvre, Paris
Herodes Atticus
Greek orator and author
Dio Chrysostom
Greek philosopher
Lycurgus
Athenian statesman
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Greek historian
Demades
Athenian statesman
Dinarchus
Greek speech writer
Andocides
Greek orator and politician
Libanius
Greek rhetorician
Caecilius of Calacte
Greek rhetorician
Demetrius Of Phaleron
Greek statesman and philosopher
Gorgias of Leontini
Greek Sophist
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer