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Born c.254 BCE • Italy
Died 184 BCE
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Terence
Roman dramatist
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Statius Caecilius
Roman poet
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Gnaeus Naevius
Roman writer
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Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin
German philologist
Seneca
Seneca
Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]
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Quintus Ennius
Roman author
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Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
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Marcus Pacuvius
Roman dramatist
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Lucius Accius
Roman poet
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Decimus Laberius
Roman author and knight
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Publilius Syrus
Latin writer
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Molière
Molière
French dramatist
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
American actor and director
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O’Neill
American dramatist
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist