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Flourished c.325 - c.275
Subjects Of Study Terence • Virgil • Latin language • grammar
Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Danish scholar
Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Roman orator
Publius Nigidius Figulus
Roman author
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
Latin author
Servius
Roman author
Nonius Marcellus
Latin grammarian and lexicographer
Jürgen Ovens: portrait of John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius
Czech educator
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
Horace Gregory
American poet and critic
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian