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Isocrates

Greek orator and rhetorician

Illustration shows a sketch of the ancient Greek writer Lucian, published in Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.

Lucian

Greek writer

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Quintilian

Roman rhetorician

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Antiphon

Greek writer and statesman

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Magnus Felix Ennodius

Italian bishop and writer

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Decimus Magnus Ausonius

Latin poet and rhetorician

Ramus, Petrus

Petrus Ramus

French philosopher

Herodes Atticus, marble bust by an unknown artist; in the Louvre, Paris

Herodes Atticus

Greek orator and author

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Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Roman orator

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Dio Chrysostom

Greek philosopher

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Longinus

Greek literary critic

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Greek historian

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Eumenius

Roman orator and teacher

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Polyaenus

Macedonian rhetorician

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Roman author

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Libanius

Greek rhetorician

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Favorinus

Roman philosopher and orator

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Himerius

Greek rhetorician

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Caecilius of Calacte

Greek rhetorician

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Phrynichus Arabius

grammarian and rhetorician