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26 Cards in this Set
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Aeschylus
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525 - 456 BC; Wrote: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, The Persians; Argued Gods ultimately provide human justice
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Sophocles
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495 - 406 BC; Wrote: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Electra; Dramas dealing with conflict between persons will and fate
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Euripedes
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480 - 406 BC; Wrote Medea and Orestes; Examined social and political ideas, criticized war, prejudice, hypocrisy, greed
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Aristophanes
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446 - 385 BC; Outstanding greek playwright of comedies; Wrote: Lysistrata, The Frogs; Satirized political/cultural leadership
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Homer
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9th century; Wrote: Iliad and Odyssey
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Hesiod
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750 - 700 BC; Wrote poems about farm life and hard labor
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Sappho
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600 BC; Woman, wrote beautiful lyric love poems
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Pindar
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522 - 443 BC; Great lyric poet; Wrote odes honoring victorious athletes at Olympic games
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Cicero
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106 - 43 BC; Father of Latin prose; Wrote extensively on ethical, religious, political subjects
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Vergil
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70 - 19 BC; Wrote famous epic poem Aeneid
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Horace
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65 - 8 BC; Roman; Wrote Odes
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Senecac
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3 BC - 65 AD; Stoic philosopher wrote essays on morals
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Petrarch
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1304 - 1374; Italian Humanist; Wrote sonnets and longer works
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Pico della Mirandola
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1463 - 1494; Italian Humanist; Challenged religious ideas and praised dignity of human being
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Erasmus
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1466? - 1536; Dutch Humanist; Wrote Praise of Folly; Ridiculed superstition, prejudice, upper class privileges and church abuses
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Sir Thomas More
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1478 - 1535; English Humanist; Wrote Utopia; Portrayed ideal country, free of war, injustice, poverty, ignorance
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Dante
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1265 - 1321; Italian; Wrote Divine Comedy, long poem in vernacular; Imaginary trip through hell, purgatory and heaven
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Boccaccio
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1313? - 1375; Italian Humanist; Wrote The Decameron
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Chaucer
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1340? - 1400; English; Wrote Canterbury Tales
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Machiavelli
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1469 - 1527; Italian; Wrote The Prince - work on ethics and government - how rulers maintain power
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Rabelais
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1494? - 1553; French; Wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel; Comic world of giants whose adventures satirized education, politics, philosophy
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Montaigne
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1533 - 1592; French; Wrote Essays; Skeptical of accepted beliefs and condemned superstition and intolerance
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Cervantes
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1547 - 1616; Spanish; Wrote Don Quixote; Ridiculed feudal society, knighthood and chivalry
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Shakespeare
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1564 - 1616; English
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Milton
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1608 - 1674; English; Wrote Paradise Lost and advocated for freedom of press in Areopagitica
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Moliere
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1622 - 1673; French; Dominated french literature as leading comic dramatist; Wrote The Misanthrope and The Imaginary Invalid
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