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Philosopher and dramatist who tutored Nero. [First Century AD] | Latin | First Century AD | Seneca (the younger) | 70%
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Emperor and philosopher, pupil of the following stoic phosopher. [Second Century AD] | Greek | Second Century AD | Marcus Aurelius | 65%
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Pre-Christian epic poet whose lines on a promised child were seen to reveal him as a pagan prophet of the birth of Christ during the Middle Ages. [First Century BC] | Latin | First Century BC | Vergil | 65%
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Influential fifth-century theologian, philosopher, autobiographer and former teacher of rhetoric from modern Algeria. [Fifth Century AD] | Latin | Fifth Century AD | Augustine | 49%
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Architect and author of 'On Architecture' (De Architectura). [First Century BC] | Latin | First Century BC | Vitruvius | 49%
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Author of a short epic poem on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis. [First Century BC] | Latin | First Century BC | Catullus | 39%
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Marcus Aurelius's doctor, author of 'Why the Best Doctor is also a Philosopher'. [Second Century AD] | Greek | Second Century AD | Galen | 34%
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Author of a history admired by Gibbon that includes a detailed account of the emperor Julian, and also of the author's experiences during the siege of Amida by the Persians. [Fourth Century AD] | Latin | Fourth Century AD | Ammianus Marcellinus | 25%
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Orator and novelist from North Africa whose works include a speech defending himself on a charge of sorcery. [Second Century AD] | Latin | Second Century AD | Apuleius | 25%
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Greek historian and another pupil of this stoic philosopher, who wrote down his master's works in Koine Greek. [Second Century AD] | Greek | Second Century AD | Arrian | 25%
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Statesman, philosopher and major translator of Aristotle into Latin. [Sixth Century AD] | Latin | Sixth Century AD | Boethius | 25%
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Satirist of the second century AD whose works include proto-science-fiction, dialogues and an essay on 'How to Write History'. [Second Century AD] | Greek | Second Century AD | Lucian of Samasata | 25%
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Author of 'The Abduction of Proserpina' (de raptu Proserpinae), a pagan court poet at the court of the Christian emperor Honorius. [Fourth-Fifth Century AD] | Latin | Fourth-Fifth Century AD | Claudian | 20%
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Author of a history of Alexander written as a study in tyranny. [First Century AD] | Latin | First Century AD | Quintus Curtius Rufus | 18%
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Freed slave and stoic philosopher. [Second Century AD] | Greek | Second Century AD | Epictetus | 17%
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Novelist whose erotic novel has the heroine undergoing three apparent deaths. [Third (?) Century AD] | Greek | Third (?) Century AD | Achilles Tatius | 15%
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Roman senator whose work on Roman traditions is framed as a dialogue set at the festival of the Saturnalia. [Fifth Century AD] | Latin | Fifth Century AD | Macrobius | 13%
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Author of an epic poem on Jason and the Argonauts in Latin. [First Century AD] | Latin | First Century AD | Valerius Flaccus | 12%
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Rhetor and teacher of John Chrysosthom whose one thousand five hundred letters cast a clear light on Antioch. [Fourth Century AD] | Greek | Fourth Century AD | Libanius | 11%
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Poet, author of a description of Justinian's Hagia Sophia. [Sixth Century AD] | Greek | Sixth Century AD | Paul the Silentiary | 11%
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Wrote the Christian epic 'The Battle of the Soul' (Psychomachia). [Fourth Century AD] | Latin | Fourth Century AD | Prudentius | 11%
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Epic poet whose poem on the defeat of the Berbers under Justinian by John Troglita (the Iohannis or De bellis Libycis) is the last Latin epic poem of antiquity. [Sixth Century AD] | Latin | Sixth Century AD | Corippus | 10%
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Literary critic whose works on the Greek orators and historians are supplemented by a great work on Roman origins. [First Century AD] | Greek | First Century AD | Dionysius of Halicarnassus | 9%
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Orator and aristocratic magnate whose hypochondriac autobiography sheds much light on pagan piety of the Second Century AD. | Greek | Second Century AD | Aelius Aristides | 5%
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Christian head of the philosophical school in Alexandria in the mid Sixth Century AD. More of his writings survive than those of any other ancient philosopher. | Greek | Sixth Century AD | John Philoponus | 4%
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