Heliodorus of Emesa

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Flourished	c.201 - c.300

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Euripides

Greek dramatist

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Greek biographer

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Greek dramatist

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Greek poet

Aeschylus

Greek dramatist

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Hesiod

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Greek poet

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Archilochus

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