Hipponax

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Hipponax of Ephesus was an Ancient Greek iambic poet. Expelled from Ephesus in 540 BC by the tyrant Athenagoras, he took refuge in Clazomenae,...

Lycophron

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Lycophron was a Greek poet and grammarian. The "Oxford Classical Dictionary", however, regards these as two different men. He was born at Chalcis...

Semonides

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Semonides (or Semontoes) of Amorgos, Greek iambic poet, flourished in the middle of the 7th century BC. He was a native of Samos, and derived his...
Publilius Syrus

Publilius Syrus

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Publilius (less correctly Publius) Syrus, a Latin writer of maxims, flourished in the 1st century BC. He was an Assyrian who was brought as a slave...

Hermippus

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Hermippus, the one-eyed, Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, flourished during the Peloponnesian War. He is said to have written 40 plays, of which...
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...

Rhinthon

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Rhinthon (ca. 323-285 BC) was a Hellenistic dramatist. The son of a potter, he was probably a native of Syracuse and afterwards settled at...

Pseudo-Scymnus

Pseudo-Scymnus is the name given by Augustus Meineke to the unknown author of a work on geography written in Classical Greek, "The Circumnavigation...
Marcel Weyland

Marcel Weyland

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Marcel Weyland is a translator of Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz. He was born in Łódź, Poland. His family fled ahead of the German Occupation thr...

Pigres Of Halicarnassus

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Pigres, a native of Halicarnassus, either the brother or the son of the celebrated Artemisia, satrap of Caria. He is spoken of by the Suda (s.v....