Lucretius

Lucretius

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Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BC- ca. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem "De Rerum...

Moschus

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Moschus, Ancient Greek bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, was born at Syracuse and flourished about...

Oppian

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Oppian or Oppianus was the name of the authors of two (or three) didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified, but now generally...

Herodas

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Herodas (Greek:), or Herondas, Greek poet, the author of short humorous dramatic scenes in verse, written under the Alexandrian empire in the 3rd...

Terentianus

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Terentianus, surnamed Maurus (a native of Mauretania), Latin grammarian and writer on prosody, flourished probably at the end of the 2nd century....
Maximus Planudes

Maximus Planudes

male, deceased (1330)
ИMaximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian, flourished during the reigns of Michael VIII Palaeologus and Andronicus II Palaeologus. He w...

Christodorus

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Christodorus, of Coptos in Egypt, epic poet, flourished during the reign of Anastasius I (491-518). According to Suidas, he was the author of...
Paul The Silentiary

Paul The Silentiary

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Paul the Silentiary, also known as Paulus Silentiarius (d. Constantinople, 575-580 AD) was an officer in the imperial household of the Byzantine...
Georg Stiernhielm

Georg Stiernhielm

male, deceased (1672)
Georg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet. Stiernhielm was born in a middle-class family in the village Svartskär in Vika p...

Grattius

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Grattius, Roman poet, of the age of Augustus, was the author of "Cynegetica", a poem on hunting, of which 541 hexameters remain. He may have been a...