Homer
Aeschylus c. 525-456 B.C.
Sophocles c. 495-406 B.C.
Herodotus c. 484-c. 425 B.C.
Thucydides c. 460-c. 400 B.C.
Aristophanes c. 445-c. 380 B.C.
Plato c. 428-c. 348 B.C.
Aristotle 384-322 B.C.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.
Gaius Julius Caesar 100-44 B.C
Lucretius c. 98-c. 55 B.C.
Virgil 70-19 B.C.
Horace 65-8 B.C.
Titus Livius (Livy) c. 59 B.C-A.D 17
Quintilian A.D. 35-c. 95
Plutarch c. 46-c. 120
P. Cornelius Tacitus c. 55-c. 117
Epictetus c. 60-c. 138
Arrian of Nicomedia c. 86-c. 160
Marcus Aurelius 121-180
Plotinus 205-270
Saint Augustine 354-430
Boethius c. 480–524
Bede the Venerable c. 672-735
Anselm of Canterbury c. 1033-1109
Saint Thomas Aquinas c. 1225-1274
Dante Alighieri 1265-1321
Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1340-1400
Sir Thomas Malory 1425-1471
Nicolò Machiavelli 1469-1527
Martin Luther 1483-1546
François Rabelais c. 1495-1553
John Calvin 1509-1564
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 1533-1592
Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616
Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679
René Descartes 1596-1650
John Milton 1608-1674
Charles Perrault 1628-1703
Benedict de Spinoza 1632-1677
John Locke 1632-1704
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
George Berkeley 1685-1753
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu 1689-1755
Henry Fielding 1707-1754
David Hume 1711-1776
Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
Laurence Sterne 1713-1768
Adam Smith 1723-1790
Immanuel Kant 1724-1804
Edmund Burke 1729-1797
Edward Gibbon 1737-1794
Thomas Paine 1737-1809
James Boswell 1740-1795
John Jay 1745-1829
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832
James Madison 1751-1836
Alexander Hamilton 1757-1804
William Blake 1757-1827
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770-1831
William Wordsworth 1770-1850
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
Jane Austen 1775-1817
Charles Lamb 1775-1834
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz 1780-1831
Stendhal 1783-1842
Jacob 1785–1863 & Wilhelm Grimm 1786–1859
George Gordon Byron 1788-1824
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
John Keats 1795-1821
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
Victor Hugo 1802-1885
Alexis de Tocqueville 1805-1859
Hans Christian Anderson 1805-1875
John Stuart Mill 1806-1873
Charles Dickens 1812-1870
Søren Kierkegaard 1813-1855
Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
George Eliot 1819-1880
Herman Melville 1819-1891
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1820-1895
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 1821-1881
Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
Lewis Carroll 1832-1898
Mark Twain 1835-1910
William James 1842-1910
Henry James 1843-1916
Frederich Nietzsche 1844-1900
Sir James George Frazer 1854-1941
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939
Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
Joseph Conrad 1857-1924
Henri Bergson 1859-1941
John Dewey 1859-1952
Anton Chekhov 1860-1904
Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
Luigi Pirandello 1867-1936
Marcel Proust 1871-1922
Bertrand Russell 1872-1970
Willa Cather 1873-1947
Thomas Mann 1875-1955
James Joyce 1882-1941
F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940
Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961
