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Lucius Livius Andronicus
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Born c.284 BCE • Taranto • Italy
Died c.204 BCE • Rome? • Italy
Notable Works “Odyssia”
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Quintus Ennius
Roman author
Gnaeus Naevius
Roman writer
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
George Buchanan, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by Arnold Bronkhorst, 1581; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Buchanan
Scottish writer and educator
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Marc-Antoine de Muret
French author
Florent Chrestien
French author
Thomas May
English scholar
Murray, Gilbert
Gilbert Murray
British scholar
Thespis
Greek poet
Seneca, marble bust, 3rd century, after an original bust of the 1st century; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Seneca
Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]
Marcus Pacuvius
Roman dramatist
Lucius Accius
Roman poet
Ion of Chios
Greek poet
Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author

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