Aristophanes
460/50-386 BCE |
Comic poet and author of eleven extant comedies,
including the Lysistrata. |
Aristotle
384-332 BCE: |
Greek philosopher and scientist. |
Augustine
354-430 CE |
Convert Christian philosopher, apologist, bishop
(of Hippo for 35 years), and author of, amongst
other things, the Confessions and The City of God. |
Celsus
fl 14-37 CE |
Roman
writer of encyclopaedias of whose works survive
eight books, On Medicine. |
Chariton
1st or 2nd century CE |
Author
of the ancient love story Chaireas and Callirhoe |
Cicero
106-43 BCE |
Greek
novelist and author of the romance, Chaereas and
Callirhoe. |
Galen
129-199/216 CE |
Physician,
anatomist, physiologist, philosopher. |
Herodotus
d. 420's BCE |
Greek
historian, author of The Histories, a narrative
of the Persian invasions of Greece (490 BCE, 480/79
BCE) |
Hippocrates
460/400 BCE |
The
most famous of ancient physicians; the many medical
tracts surviving under his name may not all be his.
|
Homer
? 750 BCE |
Epic
poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. |
Horace
65 - 8 BCE |
Roman
poet, client of the emperor Augustus, and author
of the Odes, Epodes, Satires, and Epistles. |
Juvenal
Early 2nd century CE |
Author
of sixteen angry satires on Roman life and institutions. |
Livy
59-17 BCE |
Author
of a history covering Rome from its irgins to 9
BCE in 142 books. |
Lucretius
94/5 - 51 BCE |
Poet
and author of a six book scientific poem, On the
Nature of the Universe. |
Nero
54-68 CE |
Notorious
and eventually murdered emperor of Rome, |
Persius
34-62 CE |
Poet and author of six difficult philosophical satires
on ethical themes related to Roman life. |
Quintilian
35-90's CE |
Roman
advocate and theorist on rhetoric. His Institutio
Oratoria ("Training in Rhetoric") survives
in twelve books. |
Rufus
of Ephesus
2nd half of 2nd century CE |
This Greek-speaking physician praticed during the time of
Trajan (AD 98-117) and had considerable influence in the Islamic world, for no
less than 58 of his medical writings were translated into Arabic. |
Sappho
? 650 BCE |
Female Greek lyric/love poet. |
Seneca
4B CE/1 AD-65 CE |
Roman
statesman and author of philosophical, scientific,
epistolographical, occasional, and dramatic literature. |
Soranus
of Ephesus
1st half of 2nd century CE |
Roman
physician, particularly renowned for his work on
gynaecology. |
Statius
45/50's - 96? CE |
Author
and poet well know primarily for his poem on mythological
Thebes, the Thebaid. |
Tacitus
c56 - 118? CE |
Roman
historian primarily of events of the first century
of our era - The Annals and The Histories. |
Thucydides
460/55-400 BCE |
Greek
historian of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE). |
Tiberius
14-37 CE |
Efficient but malevolent emperor of Rome |
Virgil
7-19 BCE |
Rome's greatest poet, author of the Aeneid, the
Georgics and the Eclogues. |
