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Born 220 BCE • Italy
Died c.130 BCE • Taranto • Italy
Notable Works “Paullus”
Seneca, marble bust, 3rd century, after an original bust of the 1st century; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
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Roman writer
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Roman poet
Joost van den Vondel
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Plautus
Roman dramatist
Terence
Roman dramatist
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Roman poet
Decimus Laberius
Roman author and knight
Publilius Syrus
Latin writer
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Voltaire
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French philosopher and author
Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Euripides
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Greek dramatist
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
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Sophocles
Sophocles
Greek dramatist
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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Aeschylus
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