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Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger or Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62-c.115): Roman senator, nephew of Pliny the Elder, governor of Bithynia-Pontus (109-111), author of a famous collection of letters. …Plutarch
Plutarch of Chaeronea (46-c.122): influential Greek philosopher and author, well known for his biographies and his moral treatises. Bust, believed to…Polyaenus
Polyaenus: Greek-Roman author (second century CE) of a collection of stratagems. Portait of a Roman man, third quarter of the second…
Priene, Portrait of Julius Caesar |
Procopius
Procopius of Caesarea (c..495 - after 562): Byzantine courtier and author.Life Portrait of a Roman man, c.540 CE Born in Caesarea in…Ptolemy of Alexandria
Ptolemy of Alexandria (c.85-c.165): famous astronomer, author of the great synthesis of ancient celestial knowledge. Double portrait of Ptolemy in a…Sappho
Sappho: famous Greek poetess of lyric poetry. Only a few fragments survive. Sappho To a certain extent, the beauty of Sappho's poetry…
Sappho |
Smyrna, Relief with a tribute to Euripides |
Smyrna, Sappho (Roman copy of a Hellenistic portrait) |
Solon
Solon (c.650-561): Athenian statesman, poet, and lawgiver, one of the Seven sages. Solon, mosaic from Suweydie near Baalbek In the course of…Sophocles
Sophocles (497-406): Athenian poet, author of many tragedies, of which seven survive. Sophocles Sophocles is the second of the three great Athenian…