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Theodore Prodromus: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Ptochoprodromus
Died c.1166
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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
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George the Pisidian
Byzantine poet
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John Tzetzes
Byzantine scholar
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Michael Choniates
Byzantine historian
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Constantine Manasses
Byzantine chronicler
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John Mauropous
Byzantine scholar
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John Geometres
Byzantine poet, official, and monk
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Portrait of German poet Heinrich Heine, circa 1827, seated with one arm resting on his knee and wearing a dark coat over a white shirt.
Heinrich Heine
German author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
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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Lu Xun
Chinese writer
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg
Scandinavian author
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
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Samuel Butler
English author [1612–1680]

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