Lysias

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Born	c.445 BCE
Died After	380 BCE

Isaeus

Greek speech writer

Corax

Greek writer

Demosthenes

Greek statesman and orator

Isocrates

Greek orator and rhetorician

Hyperides

Greek politician

Antiphon

Greek writer and statesman

Aeschines

Greek orator

Herodes Atticus

Greek orator and author

Dio Chrysostom

Greek philosopher

Lycurgus

Athenian statesman

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Greek historian

Demades

Athenian statesman

Dinarchus

Greek speech writer

Andocides

Greek orator and politician

Libanius

Greek rhetorician

Caecilius of Calacte

Greek rhetorician

Demetrius Of Phaleron

Greek statesman and philosopher

Gorgias of Leontini

Greek Sophist

Winston Churchill

prime minister of United Kingdom

Cicero

Roman statesman, scholar, and writer

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