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* UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar: Roman general, politician, and dictatorm, but also one of the great Roman authors, writing in a deceptively simple style. His ''Literature/CommentariesOnTheGallicWar'' and ''The Civil War'' are the only surviving descriptions of a Roman general's campaigns written in his own hand. Still widely read, and often the first books studied by Latin students.

* Creator/{{Herodotus}}: "The Father of History", he compiled a history -- aptly titled ''Literature/{{Histories}}'' -- of the known world (Greeks, Persians, and Egyptians, mostly, with Scythians and barbarians around the edges) that sought to explain the causes of the Persian Wars.

* Creator/{{Aesop}}: The author, or at least attributed author, of Literature/AesopsFables. May never have existed.

See FanficAuthors for writers specializing in fanfiction, and AuthorIllustrators for writers who are also {{painters}} and illustrators.

See FanficAuthors for writers specializing in fanfiction, and AuthorIllustrators for writers who are also painters and illustrators.

* Creator/WilliamBlake (1757 - 1827): English poet.

* Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge (1772 – 1834): English Romantic poet. He and Wordsworth were considered to be responsible for leading the Romantic
* Creator/WilliamWordsworth (1770–1850): English Romantic poet.

* Creator/BlaisePascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662): Mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and theologian. Known for laying the foundation for probability theory and proposing what is called "Pascal's law" (which stated that, in a fluid at rest in a closed container, a pressure change in one part is transmitted without loss to every portion of the fluid and to the walls of the container). He is perhaps best known for his ''Pensées'', a collection of fragments meant to provide a defense of the Christian faith, showing that it is the only religion that successfully addresses the human condition. It is also the work from which his wager stems.
* Creator/FrancoisReneDeChateaubriand (1768 - 1848): Statesman, soldier, and one of the foremost authors of 19th-century French literature. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of Romanticism in France.

* Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662): Mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and theologian. Known for laying the foundation for probability theory and proposing what is called "Pascal's law" (which stated that, in a fluid at rest in a closed container, a pressure change in one part is transmitted without loss to every portion of the fluid and to the walls of the container). He is perhaps best known for his ''Pensées'', a collection of fragments meant to provide a defense of the Christian faith, showing that it is the only religion that successfully addresses the human condition. It is also the work from which his wager stems.

* Creator/BartolomeDeLasCasas (November 11 1484 - July 18, 1566): Best known as defender of the indigenous during the conquest of America. Wrote a... rather embellished chronicle about it.
* Creator/BernalDiazDelCastillo (1496 – 3 February 1584): Spanish conquistador and chronicler of the conquista.
* Creator/BernardinoDeSahagun (1499 - February 5, 1590): Spanish missionary, chronicler of Aztec culture and defender of the indigenous. Wrote many works in both Spanish and Nahuatl.

* Creator/BartolomeDeLasCasas (November 11 1484 - July 18, 1566): Best known as defender of the indigenous during the conquest of America. Wrote a rather embellished chronicle about it.

* UsefulNotes/BartolomeDeLasCasas (November 11 1484 - July 18, 1566): Best known as defender of the indigenous during the conquest of America. Wrote a rather embellished chronicle about it.