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Born	314 • Antioch • Turkey
Died	393 (aged 79)

Isocrates

Greek orator and rhetorician

Herodes Atticus

Greek orator and author

Dio Chrysostom

Greek philosopher

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Greek historian

Caecilius of Calacte

Greek rhetorician

Corax

Greek writer

Gorgias of Leontini

Greek Sophist

Quintilian

Roman rhetorician

Gaius Asinius Pollio

Roman historian and orator

Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Roman orator

Eumenius

Roman orator and teacher

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Roman author

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Demosthenes

Greek statesman and orator

Lucian

Greek writer

Hyperides

Greek politician

Antiphon

Greek writer and statesman

Aeschines

Greek orator

Isaeus

Greek speech writer

Lysias

Greek writer