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Flourished c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE • ancient Greece

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Greek dramatist
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Greek dramatist
Aeschylus
Greek dramatist
Agathon
Agathon
Greek poet
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Ion of Chios
Greek poet
Phrynichus
Greek comic poet
Diphilus
Greek poet
Phrynichus
Greek tragic poet
Alexander Aetolus
Greek poet and scholar
Choerilus
Athenian tragic poet
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
Spanish writer

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