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Also Known As Euemeros • Evemerus
Flourished 300 BCE - • Messina
Subjects Of Study ancient Greece
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Aristides Quintilianus
Greek author
Alypius
Greek author
Agathias
Byzantine historian and poet
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
Romanian religious historian and author
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
Joseph Campbell.
Joseph Campbell
American author
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Robert Graves
British writer
Edith Hamilton
American author and educator
Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
American archaeologist and missionary
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
Latin author
Brennus
Gallic leader [died 279 BCE]
Sanchuniathon
ancient Phoenician writer
Philostratus the Younger
Greek author
Nesiotes
Greek sculptor
Aristogeiton
Greek tyrannicide
Demetrius of Scepsis
Greek scholar
Ion of Chios
Greek poet