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Isocrates
Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was the fourth of the famous 10 Attic Greek orators. Though not an original thinker, he was an exception… Dionysius The Elder , c. 430-367 b.c.
Greek tyrant of Syracuse who helped establish Hellenistic control in Sicily and southern Italy and developed the first catapult for w… Livius Andronicus , c. 280 b.c.e.–c. 204 b.c.e.
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The Originator of Latin Poetry.
Little is known about the early life of Livius Andronicus, who was… Doris , DORIS
DORIS (first century b.c.e.), first wife of *Herod the Great, whom he married (c. 47 b.c.e.) before he became king and while he was strategos o… Sallust , Sallust (86-ca. 35 B.C.), or Gaius Sallustius Crispus, was a Roman statesman and historian. Rejecting the annalistic method of writing history, he co… Herodotus , Herodotus
Herodotus
Herodotus (ca. 484 B.C.-ca. 425 B.C.) was the first Greek writer who succeeded in writing a large-scale historical narrative that…
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