Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Greece

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C. P. Cavafy, Egyptian Greek Poet and Journalist
(1863-1933)

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Name: Constantine Peter Cavafy
Known as: C. P. Cavafy
Birth: April 29, 1863, Alexandria, Egypt
Death: April 29, 1933, Alexandria, Egypt
Language: Greek
Who he was: Egyptian Greek poet and journalist best known for Ithaca
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Homer (after c. 850 BCE)

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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.
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El Greco, Greek/Spanish Painter
(1541-1614)

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Name: Doménikos Theotokópoulos
Known as: El Greco
Birth: Unknown Date, 1541, Heraklion, Greece
Death: April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain
Language: Greek, Italian, Spanish
Who he was: Greek/Spanish painter; El Expolio; The Assumption of the Virgin; The Burial of the Count of Orgaz; View of Toledo; Opening of the Fifth Seal

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Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek Writer
(1883-1957)

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Name: Nikos Kazantzakis
Birth: February 18, 1883, Heraklion, Greece
Death: October 26, 1957, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist; epic poem The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel; novels Zorba the Greek; The Greek Passion; Captain Michalis; The Last Temptation of Christ; essay The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises
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Lafcadio Hearn, International Writer
(1850-1904)

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Name: Lafcadio Hearn
Also known as: Koizumi Yakumo
Birth: June 27, 1850, Lefkada, Greece
Death: September 26, 1904, Tokyo, Japan
Languages: English; Greek (?); Japanese (?)
Who he was: International writer whose most famous works in Japan include: Kwaidan; Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; Kokoro; Gleanings in Buddha-Fields; In Ghostly Japan. New Orleans work includes: Gombo Zhèbes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs; La Cuisine Créole; Chita: A Memory of Last Island

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Clement of Alexandria, Church Father
(c. 150-c. 215)

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Name: Titus Flavius Clemens
Known as: Clement of Alexandria
Birth: 150, Athens, Greece
Death: 215, Jerusalem, Israel
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek theologian, catechist, and Church Father; he is famous for a "trilogy" of writings made up of the Protrepticus (Exhortation); the Paedagogus (Tutor); and the Stromata (Miscellanies)

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Epictetus, Roman Stoic Philosopher
(c. 55-135)

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Name: Epictetus
Birth: 55, Hierapolis, Turkey
Death: 135, Nicopolis, Greece
Who he was: Greek-speaking Roman stoic philosopher who wrote The Golden Sayings
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Plutarch, Greek Biographer
(c. 46-127)

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Name: Plutarch
Later known as: Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Birth: 45, Chaeronea, Greece
Death: 120, Delphi, Greece
Who he was: Greek biographer who wrote The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans and Moralia
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Xenophon, Greek Historian and Philosopher
(c. 430-354 BCE)

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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
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Theocritus, Greek Poet
(flourished c. 270 BCE)

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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
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Thucydides, Greek Historian
(c. 460-c. 400 BCE)

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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
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Plato, Greek Philosopher
(c. 425-c. 348 BCE)

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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
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Menander, Greek Comic Playwright
(c. 342-290 BCE)

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Name: Menander
Dates: 342/341-290 BCE
Nationality: Greek
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek comic playwright who wrote Dyskolos and other fragments
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Hippocrates, Greek Physician
(c. 460-c. 370 BCE)

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Name: Hippocrates
Dates: c. 460-c. 370 BCE
Nationality: Greek
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek physician whose Works include "The Hippocratic Oath"
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Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 370) Greek physician whose Works include "The Hippocratic Oath"

Epicurus, Greek Philosopher
(341-270 BCE)

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Name: Epicurus
Dates: 341-270 BCE
Nationality: Greek
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek philosopher; wrote three letters, known mainly through Diogenes Laërtius; and other fragments
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Euclid, Greek Mathematician
(flourished 300 BCE)

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Name: Euclid
Dates: flourished 300 BCE
Place: Alexandria, Egypt
Nationality: Greek
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek mathematician who wrote the Elements
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Euripides, Greek Tragic Playwright
(c. 480-c. 406 BCE)

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Name: Euripides
Dates: c. 480-c. 406 BCE
Nationality: Greek
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek tragic playwright who wrote Alcestis; Medea; Hippolytus; The Trojan Women; Electra; The Bacchae
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Diogenes Laertius, Greek Biographer
(3rd century)

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Name: Diogenes Laertius
Dates: 3rd century
Place: Roman Bithynia? (Asia Minor)
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek biographer who wrote Lives of Eminent [Greek] Philosophers

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Diogenes the Cynic, Greek Philosopher
(c. 408-323 BCE)

Diogenes in his tub, by Jean-Leon Gerome; note the lamp, and the dogs.

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Name: Diogenes the Cynic
Also known as: Diogenes of Sinope
Birth: c. 412 or 404 BCE, Turkey
Death: 323 BCE, Greece
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek philosopher, one of the founders--and the prototype--of Cynic philosophy

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Archimedes, Greek Scientist
(c. 287-c. 212 BCE)

by Domenico Fetti

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Name: Archimedes
Dates: c. 287-c. 212 BCE
Place: Born and died in Syracuse, Italy ("Magna Graecia")
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek mathematician and scientist known for On Floating Bodies; The Sand Reckoner
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