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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.
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Plutarch
46 – 119The biographer who invented the idea that character makes history.
Greece·Literature · History · PhilosophyFull profile
Epictetus
50 – 135Enslaved teacher whose Discourses fixed the dichotomy of control at the heart of Stoic practice.
Greece·Philosophy
Marcus Aurelius
121 – 180Emperor whose private Meditations founded modern Stoic self-help.
Italy·Philosophy · Literature
Boethius
477 – 524Wrote Consolation of Philosophy awaiting execution; medieval Europe's bridge to antiquity.
Italy·Philosophy · Mathematics