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Thespis: Facts & Related Content

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Flourished	c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE • ancient Greece

Euripides

Euripides

Greek dramatist

Sophocles

Sophocles

Greek dramatist

Aeschylus

Greek dramatist

Agathon

Agathon

Greek poet

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Phrynichus

Greek comic poet

Diphilus

Greek poet

Phrynichus

Greek tragic poet

Alexander Aetolus

Greek poet and scholar

Choerilus

Athenian tragic poet

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English author

Jean Racine

Jean Racine

French dramatist

Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.

Friedrich Schiller

German writer

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

Spanish writer

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.

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