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Also Known As	Titus Livius
Born	59 BCE or 64 BCE • Padua • Italy
Died	17 • Padua • Italy
Movement / Style	Golden Age

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Tacitus

Roman historian

Cassiodorus

historian, statesman, and monk

Publius Annius Florus

Roman historian

Fabius Planciades Fulgentius

Latin author

Fenestella

Roman poet

Horace

Roman poet

Cicero

Roman statesman, scholar, and writer

Virgil

Roman poet

Catullus

Roman poet

Lucretius

Latin poet and philosopher

Marcus Terentius Varro

Roman author

Gaius Licinius Calvus

Roman poet

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Hugo Grotius

Dutch statesman and scholar

William Camden

British historian

Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos

Byzantine historian

Battle of Sluis during the Hundred Years' War

Jean Froissart

French poet and historian

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton

British historian

Joseph Justus Scaliger

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Saint Theophanes the Confessor

Byzantine monk

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