Agathias: Quick Facts

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Born	c.536
Died	c.582
Subjects Of Study	ancient Greece

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Anyte

Greek poet

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Leonidas of Tarentum

Greek poet

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Rhianus

Greek poet and scholar

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Meleager

Greek poet

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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos

Byzantine historian

Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.

Xenophon

Greek historian

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Saint Andrew of Crete

archbishop of Gortyna, Crete

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Aulus Licinius Archias

Greek poet

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Philodemus

Greek poet and philosopher

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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

Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing.

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

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Martial

Roman poet

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Ouyang Xiu

Chinese author and statesman

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Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Ludvig Holberg

Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg

Scandinavian author

Mercy Otis Warren

Mercy Otis Warren

American writer and historian

N.F.S. Grundtvig

N.F.S. Grundtvig

Danish bishop and poet

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

History Buff Quiz

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry