Plautus

Plautus

male
Titus Macchius Plautus, generally referred to simply as Plautus, was a playwright of Ancient Rome. He is believed to have been born in Sarsina (a...
Ennius

Ennius

Quintus Ennius (239 - 169 BC) was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry. He was of...
Ovid

Ovid

male, deceased (17)
Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid who wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological...
Elaine Fantham

Elaine Fantham

female
Elaine Fantham is a British classicist. She was Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University from 1986 to 1999. She was chair of the Department...
Alain de Lille

Alain de Lille

male, deceased (1202)
Alain de Lille (or Alanus ab Insulis) (c. 1128 - 1202), French theologian and poet, was born, probably in Lille, some years before 1128. Little is...
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto

male, deceased (1533)
Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet, author of the epic poem "Orlando furioso" (1516), "Orlando Enraged". He was born at Reggio, in Emilia, where...
George Of Trebizond

George Of Trebizond

male, deceased (1484)
George of Trebizond (1395 - August 12, 1484), Greek philosopher and scholar, one of the pioneers of the revival of letters in the Western world,...
Peter White

Peter White

male
Peter White is a professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He has made numerous contributions to scholarship...
John Conington

John Conington

male, deceased (1869)
John Conington (August 10, 1825 - October 23, 1869) was an English classical scholar. He was born at Boston in Lincolnshire, and is said to have...

Gottlieb Christoph Harless

male, deceased (1815)
Gottlieb Christoph Harless (originally Harles, was a German classical scholar and bibliographer. He was born at Culmbach in Bavaria. He studied at...