Aeschylus
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Tragic playwright, Greek, 6th - 5th Century BCE
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Aesop
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Fabulist, Greek, 7th - 6th Century BCE
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Anonymous
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Epic poet, Sumerian/Mesopotamian/Akkadian, c. 20th - 10th Century BCE
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Anonymous
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Various religious writers, Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek, c. 9th Century BCE - 2nd Century CE
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Anonymous
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Epic poet, Old English, c. 8th Century CE
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Aristophanes
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Comic playwright, Greek, 5th - 4th Century BCE
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Catullus
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Lyric and elegiac poet, Roman, 1st Century BCE
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Euripides
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Tragic playwright, Greek, 5th Century BCE
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Hesiod
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Didactic poet, Greek, 8th Century BCE
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Homer
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Epic poet, Greek, 8th Century BCE
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Horace
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Lyric poet and satirist, Roman, 1st Century BCE
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Juvenal
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Satirist, Roman, 1st - 2nd Century CE
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Lucan
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Epic poet, Roman, 1st Century CE
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Menander
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Comic playwright, Greek, 4th - 3rd Century BCE
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Ovid
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Didactic, elegiac and epic poet, Roman, 1st Century BCE - 1st Century CE
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Pindar
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Lyric poet, Greek, 6th - 5th Century BCE
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Pliny the Younger
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Correspondent, Roman, 1st - 2nd Century CE
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Sappho
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Lyric poet, Greek, 7th - 6th Century BCE
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Seneca the Younger
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Tragic playwright and satirist, Roman, 1st Century CE
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Sophocles
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Tragic playwright, Greek, 5th Century BCE
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Vergil (Virgil)
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Epic and didactic poet, Roman, 1st Century BCE
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