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Also Known As Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
Born 490 • Italy
Died c.585 • Vivarium • Italy
Notable Works “An Introduction to Divine and Human Readings” • “Variae”
Subjects Of Study afterlife • liberal arts • soul
Adso of Montier-en-Der
Benedictine monk and abbot
Godfrey of Saint-Victor
French philosopher
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Livy
Livy
Roman historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Seneca, marble bust, 3rd century, after an original bust of the 1st century; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Seneca
Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]
Tyconius
Christian theologian
Lucius Apuleius
Roman philosopher and scholar
Marcus Terentius Varro
Roman author
Publius Annius Florus
Roman historian
Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Roman medical writer
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
Latin author
Lucius Accius
Roman poet
Marcus Minucius Felix
Christian apologist
Fenestella
Roman poet
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
The Shakespeare of his generation
Bob Dylan
American musician
Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet

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