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Born c.536
Died c.582
Subjects Of Study ancient Greece
Anyte
Greek poet
Leonidas of Tarentum
Greek poet
Rhianus
Greek poet and scholar
Meleager
Greek poet
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
St. John of Damascus
Christian saint
Saint Andrew of Crete
archbishop of Gortyna, Crete
Aulus Licinius Archias
Greek poet
Philodemus
Greek poet and philosopher
Manuel Philes
Byzantine poet
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Martial
Roman poet
Ouyang Xiu
Chinese author and statesman
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg
Scandinavian author
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren
American writer and historian

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