Statistics for Greek and Latin authors in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity (hard)

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Philosopher and dramatist who tutored Nero. [First Century AD]	Latin	First Century AD	Seneca (the younger)	70%
Emperor and philosopher, pupil of the following stoic phosopher. [Second Century AD]	Greek	Second Century AD	Marcus Aurelius	65%
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%
Influential fifth-century theologian, philosopher, autobiographer and former teacher of rhetoric from modern Algeria. [Fifth Century AD]	Latin	Fifth Century AD	Augustine	49%
Architect and author of 'On Architecture' (De Architectura). [First Century BC]	Latin	First Century BC	Vitruvius	49%
Author of a short epic poem on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis. [First Century BC]	Latin	First Century BC	Catullus	39%
Marcus Aurelius's doctor, author of 'Why the Best Doctor is also a Philosopher'. [Second Century AD]	Greek	Second Century AD	Galen	34%
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%
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%
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%
Statesman, philosopher and major translator of Aristotle into Latin. [Sixth Century AD]	Latin	Sixth Century AD	Boethius	25%
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%
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%
Author of a history of Alexander written as a study in tyranny. [First Century AD]	Latin	First Century AD	Quintus Curtius Rufus	18%
Freed slave and stoic philosopher. [Second Century AD]	Greek	Second Century AD	Epictetus	17%
Novelist whose erotic novel has the heroine undergoing three apparent deaths. [Third (?) Century AD]	Greek	Third (?) Century AD	Achilles Tatius	15%
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%
Author of an epic poem on Jason and the Argonauts in Latin. [First Century AD]	Latin	First Century AD	Valerius Flaccus	12%
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%
Poet, author of a description of Justinian's Hagia Sophia. [Sixth Century AD]	Greek	Sixth Century AD	Paul the Silentiary	11%
Wrote the Christian epic 'The Battle of the Soul' (Psychomachia). [Fourth Century AD]	Latin	Fourth Century AD	Prudentius	11%
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%
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%
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%
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%