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  Alcaeus of Mytilene (c625-c580 BC) lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos

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  Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) King of Macedon, by age thirty, had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India

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  Anacreon (c582-c485 BC) Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems

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  Antisthenes (c446-c366 BC) a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates who first learned rhetoric under Gorgias before becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates

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  Apollonius of Tyana (c3 BC-c97 AD) a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Anatolia whose biography was written by Philostratus

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  Apuleius (c124-c170) a Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician who was from Madauros, Numidia , modern Algeria

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  Aristippus of Cyrene (c435-c356 BC) a one time pupil of Socrates and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy

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  Aristomachus of Soli, an ancient Greek who wrote on the culture of bees

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  Aristophanes (c446-c386 BC) comic playwright of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy, eleven of whose forty plays survive virtually complete

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  Aristotle (384-322 BC) a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece who was taught by Plato and was the founder of the Lyceum

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  Athanasius I of Alexandria (c296-373) was the 20th bishop of Alexandria, a Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism

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  Augustine of Hippo (354-430) also known as St Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa

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  Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62 AD) Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin

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  Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (330-379) was an East Roman bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor

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  Carneades (c214–c129 BC) an Academic Skeptic philosopher born in Cyrene who, by the year 159 BC, had started to refute all previous dogmatic doctrines, especially Stoicism

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  Chrysippus of Soli (c279-c206 BC) a Greek Stoic philosopher a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of Cleanthes in the Stoic school

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  Cimon (c510-450 BC) was an Athenian statesman and general in mid-5th century BC Greece, the son of Miltiades, the victor of the Battle of Marathon

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  Democritus (c460-c370 BC) an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe

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  Diogenes (c412-323 BC) a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy, born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor, and died at Corinth

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  Dionysius the Renegade (c330-c250 BC) also known as Dionysius of Heraclea, a Stoic philosopher and pupil of Zeno of Citium who abandoned Stoicism later in life

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  Epiphanius of Petra , also called Epiphanius of Syria, was a sophist and rhetorician at Athens in the first half of the fourth century AD

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  Fabius Rusticus (died c108 AD) a Roman historian who was quoted on several occasions by Tacitus who also described him as a close friend of Seneca

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  Gaius Marius (c157-86 BC) a Roman general, politician, and statesman, who held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times during his career

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  Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually known as Sallust (86-c35 BC) was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family

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  Gregory of Nazianzus (c329-390) a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople and theologian

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  Hamilcar Barca (c275-228 BC) Carthaginian general and statesman, leader of the Barcid family, and father of Hannibal

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  Hannibal (247-181 BC) Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded Carthage’s main forces against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War

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  Heraclitus of Ephesus (c535-c475 BC) an Ancient Greek, pre-Socratic, Ionian philosopher and a native of the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire

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  Herodotus (c484-c425 BC) an ancient Greek writer, historian and geographer who was born in the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the former Persian Empire

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  Hesiod, the ancient Greek poet thought to have been active around the same time as Homer c750 BC

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  Homer, the 8th century BC Greek epic poet and author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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  Italy, Bronze coins

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  Italy, Consular Medals copied from Old Types

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  Italy, Emperors from their Medals (Crispus to Valentinien II)

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  Italy, Emperors from their Medals (Gordien II to Aurelien)

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  Italy, Emperors from their Medals (Honorius to Romulus Augustule)

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  Italy, Emperors from their Medals (Marcus Aurelius to Gordien)

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  Italy, Emperors from their Medals (Tacitus to Licinius Junior)

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  Italy, Iconographic Consular Medals

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  Italy, Medals of the Roman Emperors (Augustus to Antoninus Pius)

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  Italy, Roman Medals of Triuvirates, Dictators and Generals

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  Italy, Sculpture in the Costume of an Empress, based on Agrippina

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  Italy, Silver coins, denarii and its divisions and Gold Aureus

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  Italy, Statue in the Costume of an Emperor, based on Titus

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  Italy, Statue of Caesar in a Toga

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  Italy, Two Lictors, bodyguards to a magistrate who held Imperium

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  John Chrysostom (c347-407) an Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople, known for his preaching and criticism of both ecclesiastical and political leaders

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  Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c4 BC-65 AD) usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature

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  Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138-78 BC) a Roman general and statesman who won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history

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  Marcus Claudius Marcellus (c270-208 BC) five times elected as consul of the Roman Republic, was an important Roman military leader during the Gallic War of 225 BC and the Second Punic War

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  Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) one of ancient Rome’s greatest scholars and a prolific author who is sometimes called Varro Reatinus to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinus

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  Medallions of ancient Kings of Syria

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  Menander (c342-c290 BC) Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy who is known to have written 108 comedies

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  Miltiades (c550-489 BC) a Greek Athenian citizen known for his role in the Battle of Marathon and was the father of Cimon, the noted Athenian statesman

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  Mithradates VI Eupator (135-63 BC) king of Hellenistic Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the Roman Republic’s most formidable opponents

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  Moschion, Athenian tragic poet who probably lived in the second half of the 3rd century BC

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  Origen of Alexandria (c184-c253) an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria

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  Ovid with illustration of Daphne from Metamorphoses

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  Philemon (c362-c262 BC) Athenian poet from Sicily, and playwright of the New Comedy

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  Pindar (c518-c438 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes

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  Pittacus (c640-568 BC) an ancient Mytilenean military general and one of the Seven Sages of Greece

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  Plato (c427-c348 BC) an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy

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  Poseidippus or Posidippus (comic poet), (c316-250 BC) celebrated poet of the New Comedy at Athens, known for his novel use of language, and influence on the Latin poets

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  Posidonius (c135-c51 BC) a Greek politician, astronomer, astrologer,geographer, historian, mathematician, and teacher native to Apamea, Syria

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  Ptolemy II Philadelphus (308-246 BC) pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 283 to 246 BC during which time he promoted the Museum and Library of Alexandria

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  Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC) a Roman general and later consul who is often regarded as one of the best military commanders and strategists of all time

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  Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid (43 BC-c18 AD) Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus

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  Publius Terentius Afer (c185-c159? BC) known in English as Terence, was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic whose comedies were performed for the first time around 170-160 BC

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  Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil (70-19 BC) ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period

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  Pyrrhus (318-272 BC) king of the Greek tribe of Molossians regarded as one of the greatest generals of antiquity

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  Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known as Horace (65-8 BC) the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus

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  Saint Jerome (c342-420) a Latin priest, confessor, theologian, and historian best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin, later known as the Vulgate

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  Sappho (c630-c570 BC) Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on Lesbos, who is known for her lyric poetry

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  Socrates (c470-399) the Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought

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  Solon (c630-c560 BC) an Athenian statesman, lawmaker and poet who is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens

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  Sophocles (c497-c405 BC) one of three ancient Greek tragedians, who wrote over 120 plays of which only seven have survived in a complete form

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  Tertullian (c155-c220) a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa who has been called “the father of Latin Christianity”

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  Thales of Miletus (c624-c548 BC) a Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor who was regarded as one of the Seven Sages of Greece

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  Themistocles (c524–459 BC) an Athenian politician and general who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy

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  Theocritus (c300- after 260 BC) Greek poet from Sicily and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry

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  Thucydides (c460-c400 BC) an Athenian historian and general whose History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC

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  Titus Livius (c64 BC – AD c17) known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ”From the Founding of the City”

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  Titus Quinctius Flamininus (c228-174 BC) a Roman politician and general, instrumental in the Roman conquest of Greece

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  Zeno of Citium (c334-c262 BC) a Hellenistic philosopher of Phoenician origin from Citium, Cyprus who was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC

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