Alexander Aetolus

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Flourished	c.280 BCE -

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Aeschylus

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Phrynichus

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Agathon

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Thespis

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Choerilus

Athenian tragic poet

Quasimodo

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Lucius Livius Andronicus

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Aristophanes

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Greek dramatist

Menander

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Antiphanes

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Phrynichus

Greek comic poet

Epicharmus

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Crates

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Diphilus

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Cratinus

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