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Also Known As	Claudius Aelianus
Born	c.170 • Praeneste
Died	c.235
Notable Works	“On the Nature of Animals”

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Roman rhetorician

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Euripides

Euripides

Greek dramatist

Plutarch

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Greek biographer

Sophocles

Sophocles

Greek dramatist

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Greek dramatist

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Aristophanes

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Greek dramatist

Illustration shows a sketch of the ancient Greek writer Lucian, published in Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.

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Greek poet

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Italian poet and humanist

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Alcaeus

Greek poet

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Greek poet

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Sappho

Greek poet

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Archilochus

Greek author

Anacreon, Roman copy of a 5th-century-bc bust by Phidias; in the Louvre, Paris.

Anacreon

Greek poet

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Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.

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