Here are posts labelled "BCE" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Homeros
- Known in English as: Homer
- Dates: after c. 850 BCE
- Place: Greece
- Language: "Homeric Greek"
- Who he was: purported author of two Greek epics: The Iliad, about the behavior of Achilles during the Trojan War; and The Odyssey, about the wanderings of Odysseus after the Trojan War. The Homeric Hymns, though long attributed to him, are almost certainly "Homeric" only in style, not in authorship.
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); LRP; HC; Bloom; GC
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- Name: Publius Vergilius Maro
- Known as: Virgil
- Birth: October 15, 70 BCE, Virgilio, Italy
- Death: September 21, 19 BCE, Brindisi, Italy
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman poet known for The Aeneid; The Eclogues; The Georgics
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); LRP; HC; Bloom; GC
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- Name: Xenophon
- Dates: c. 430-354 BCE
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek historian and philosopher who wrote Anabasis (An Ascent); The Constitution of the Spartans
- Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1, 2)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Zhuang Zhou
- Known as: Zhuangzi
- Dates: c. 4th century BCE
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese philosopher who wrote the Zhuangzi, a text from the Warring States period (476-221 BCE) with stories depicting the carefree nature of the ideal Daoist sage
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- Name: Kong Ji
- Known as: Zisi
- Dates: c. 481-402 BCE
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese philosopher who wrote Zhong Yong (Doctrine of the Mean) (one of Confucianism's "Four Books")
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- Name: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Known as: Seneca the Younger
- Dates: c. 4 BCE-65 CE
- Place: Córdoba, Roman Spain
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman Stoic philosopher who wrote Moral Essays; Epistles; Tragedies
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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- Name: Publius Terentius Afer
- Known as: Terence
- Dates: c. 190-c. 159? BCE
- Place: Carthage
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman comic playwright known for Andria (The Girl from Andros)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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- Name: Theocritus
- Dates: flourished c. 270 BCE
- Place: Italy ("Magna Graecia")
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek poet who wrote Idylls
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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- Name: Thucydides
- Dates: c. 460-c. 400 BCE
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek historian known for The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); LRP; Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Valmiki
- Dates: from 5th to 1st centuries BCE
- Language: Sanskrit
- Who he was: Indian epic poet supposed to have written the Ramayana
- Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Publius Ovidius Naso
- Known as: Ovid
- Birth: March 20, 43 BCE, Sulmona, Italy
- Death: Unknown Date, 17 CE, Constanța, Romania
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman poet who wrote Metamorphoses; love poetry, especially Amores (Love Affairs) and Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Philo of Alexandria
- Also known as: Philo Judaeus
- Dates: c. 25 BCE-c. 50 CE
- Place: Alexandria, Egypt
- Language: Latin; Greek? Hebrew?
- Who he was: Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who wrote numerous allegorical commentaries on the "Old Testament"
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- Name: Plato
- Dates: 428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347 BCE
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek philosopher known for dialogues featuring Socrates: Apology; Crito; Phaedo, approximately 30 in all
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); LRP; HC; Bloom; GC
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Known as: Plautus
- Dates: c. 254-184 BCE
- Place: Born Sarsina, died Rome, Italy
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman comic playwright who wrote Menaechmi (The Brothers Menaechmus or The Two Menaechmuses); Captivi (The Captives or The Prisoners)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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- Name: Qu Yuan
- Dates: c. 339/340-278 BCE
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese poet known for his poems in the Chu Ci (Songs of the South) anthology
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Gaius Julius Caesar
- Known as: Julius Caesar
- Dates: 100-44 BCE
- Place: Born and died at Rome, Italy
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman emperor and author who wrote Bellum Gallicum (The Gallic War)
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- Name: Titus Livius
- Also known as: Livy
- Dates: 64 or 59 BCE-17 CE
- Place: Born and died at Padua, Italy
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman historian who wrote Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Foundation of the City) [a history of Rome]
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Titus Lucretius Carus
- Also known as: Lucretius
- Dates: c. 99-c. 55 BCE
- Place: Italy
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman poet and philosopher who wrote De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things)
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); LRP; Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Menander
- Dates: 342/341-290 BCE
- Nationality: Greek
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek comic playwright who wrote Dyskolos and other fragments
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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- Name: Mengzi
- Known as: Mencius
- Dates: 372-289; or 389-303/302 BCE
- Nationality: Chinese
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese philosopher who wrote (The Book of) Mengzi or The Mencius (one of the "Four Books of Confucianism")
- Included in lists (What's This?): LRP
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