Flavius Philostratus: Quick Facts

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Born	170
Died	c.245

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Plutarch

Greek biographer

Damascius

Greek philosopher

Sidney Colvin

English scholar

Charles Edward Russell

American writer

Laura E. Richards

American author

Marchette Chute

American author

Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

Winston Churchill

prime minister of United Kingdom

Samuel Johnson

English author

Francis Bacon

British author, philosopher, and statesman

Virginia Woolf

British writer

Petrarch

Italian poet

Stendhal

French author

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

James Boswell

Scottish biographer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American author

Henry Adams

American historian

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

French philosopher and humanist

Paul Verlaine

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