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Also Known As	Euemeros • Evemerus
Flourished	300 BCE - • Messina
Subjects Of Study	ancient Greece

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

Xenophon

Greek historian

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Aristides Quintilianus

Greek author

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Alypius

Greek author

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Agathias

Byzantine historian and poet

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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade

Romanian religious historian and author

Schliemann, Heinrich

Heinrich Schliemann

German archaeologist

Joseph Campbell.

Joseph Campbell

American author and editor

Max Müller

Max Müller

German scholar

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Robert Graves

British writer

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Edith Hamilton

American author and educator

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Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell

American archaeologist and missionary

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Fabius Planciades Fulgentius

Latin author

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Brennus

Gallic leader [died 279 BCE]

Pittacus, herm; in the Louvre, Paris

Pittacus Of Mytilene

Greek statesman

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Sanchuniathon

ancient Phoenician writer

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Philostratus the Younger

Greek author

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Ion of Chios

Greek poet

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Nesiotes

Greek sculptor

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Aristogeiton

Greek tyrannicide