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Born 239 BCE • Italy
Died 169 BCE
Notable Works “Annales” • “Iphigenia at Aulis” • “Medea” • “Satires”
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Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
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Gnaeus Naevius
Roman writer
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
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Marc-Antoine de Muret
French author
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Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov
Russian writer
Seneca
Seneca
Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]
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Marcus Pacuvius
Roman dramatist
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Lucius Accius
Roman poet
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spanish author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Early 20th century black and white portrait of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, seated and resting his face on his hand.
Federico García Lorca
Spanish writer
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Italian poet Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso
Italian poet
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer

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