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CHRONOLOGICAL AUTHOR LIST Before 300 BC

Ptahhotep, Egyptian sage and vizier (fl. 2650 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Hammurabi, Babylonian king (c. 1792 BC - 1750 BC)   ---   CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Ikhenathon (Akhenaton), Egyptian king of Egypt and religious reformer (c. 1375 BC - 1358 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
David, Biblical king of Judah and Israel (1013 BC? - 973 BC?)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Solomon, king of the ancient Hebrews and son of David (? - c. 930 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Lycurgus, Spartan semi-mythical law-giver (fl. c. 850 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (4)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Hesiod, Greek pastoral poet, father of Greek didactic poetry (c. 800 BC - c. 720 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (23)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), Greek poet (fl. 750 BC or earlier)   ---   READ QUOTES (243)     CHECK READING LIST (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Aristodemus, Messenian semi-legendary ruler of Messenia (reigned c. 731 BC - 724 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Archilochus, Greek poet and satirist (c. 680 BC or 700 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Creon, Athenian first archon king (fl. 683 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Periander of Corinth, Greek tyrant, one of Seven Sages (665? BC - 585 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pittacus of Mitylene, Greek one of Seven Sages, statesman, philosopher and poet (c. 652 BC - 569 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (5)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Mimnermus, Greek elegiac poet (fl. 630 BC - 600 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Thales of Miletus, Greek one of Seven Sages, philosopher, astronomer and geometer (c. 640 BC - 546 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (8)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Solon, Athenian one of Seven Sages, lawgiver (c. 638 BC - 559 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (24)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Cleobulus of Lindos, Rhodes one of Seven Sages (633 BC - 564 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (4)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Alcaeus, Greek lyric poet (fl. c. 600 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Anacharsis, Scythian philosopher (fl. 600 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (6)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Fan Chen, Chinese mathematician (fl. 600 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Sappho, Greek lyric poet (fl. c. 600 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (9)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Zoroaster, Persian philosopher and religious leader (c. 628 BC - c. 551 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (10)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Aesop, Greek fabulist and author (c. 620 BC - c. 560 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (31)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Chilo of Sparta (Chilon), Greek one of Seven Sages (early 6th century BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (7)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Anaximander, Greek physical philosopher and mathematician (c. 611 BC - 547 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Lao-Tzu (Lao-Tsze or Laosi)("The Venerable Philosopher"), Chinese philosopher (c. 604 BC - c. 531 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (11)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Cyrus the Great, Persian founder (600 BC? - 529 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Bias of Priene, Greek one of Seven sages (c. 566 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (11)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Croesus, Lydian wealthy king (590? BC - after 525 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Kapila, Hindu philosopher (fl. before mid 6th century BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Phocylides, Greek gnomic poet (fl. 560 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pythagoras, Greek mathematician and philosopher (582 BC - 497 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (25)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Ariphon the Sicyonian, Greek poet (c. 550 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Artabanus I, Persian prince (fl. c. 550 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Theano, Greek wife of Pythagoras (c. 550 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Xenophanes, Greek philosopher and poet (c. 576 BC - 480 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Hippoclides, Greek notable (c. 6th century BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Myson, Greek philosopher (c. 600 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Theognis of Megara, Greek elegiac poet (570? BC - 490? BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Lucius Tarquin, Roman legendary king (6th century BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Anacreon, Greek amatory lyric poet (c. 563 BC - 478 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Buddha (Gautama Buddha), Indian religious leader (563 BC - 483 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (27)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Horatius Cocles, Roman legendary hero, one of 3 brothers (Horatii) (6th century BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyric poet (556 BC - 467 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (7)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Confucius, Chinese philosopher (c. 551 BC - 478 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (112)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Hecato (Hecataeus), Greek historian and geographer (c. 550 BC - 476 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Epicharmus, Dorian comic poet and Pythagorean philosopher (540? BC - 450 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek philosopher (c. 540 BC - c. 480 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (28)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Lucius Junius Brutus, Roman consul, legendary founder of Roman republic (fl. 509 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Ischomachus, Greek athlete (fl. 508 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Alcamaeon of Crotona, Greek physician and philosopher (c. 500 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Sun Tzu (Sunzi), Chinese military strategist (c. 500 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (5)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Aeschylus, Greek tragic poet (525 BC - 456 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (40)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Menennius Agripa (Lanatus), Roman patrician and senator (fl. 493 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pindar, Greek chief lyric poet (c. 522 BC - 433 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (8)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Demophilus, Greek general and architect (? - 480 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (4)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Xerxes I, the Great, Persian king (486 BC - 465 BC) (519? BC - 465 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Themistocles, Athenian statesman and commander (514? BC - 449 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (4)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Aristides ("The Just"), Greek general and statesman (fl. 480 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pausanias, Spartan general (fl. 479 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Cleonice, Greek maiden killed by Pausanius (c. 476 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Anaxagoras, Greek philosopher and scientist (c. 500 BC - c. 428 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Crates, Greek actor and dramatist (fl. c. 470 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Sophocles, Greek tragic poet (c. 496 BC - 406 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (53)     CHECK READING LIST (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pericles, Greek statesman (495 BC - 429 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (10)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Protagoras, Greek sophist and philosopher (490? BC - 420? BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Euripides, Greek tragic poet (485 BC - 406 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (92)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Herodotus ("Father of History"), Greek historian (c. 484 BC - c. 409 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (19)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Leontinus Gorgias, Greek sophist and rhetorician (483 BC - 375 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Agis II, Greek king of Sparta (fl. 450 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Antiphon, Greek orator (480 BC - 411 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Hippias, Greek sophist (fl. 450 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Ion, Greek poet and dramatist (fl. 450 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Parmenides, Greek Eleatic philosopher (fl. 450 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Marcus Horatius Barbatus, Roman consul (c. 449 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Dionysius of Chalcus, Greek poet and orator (fl. c. 444 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Thucydides, Greek historian (c. 471 BC - c. 400 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (12)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Choerilus of Samos, Greek tragic dramatist (c. 470 BC - 399 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Lamachus, Athenian general (c. 470 BC - 414 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Socrates, Greek philosopher (c. 470 BC - 399 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (71)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Cleon, Athenian demagogue (? - 422 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Democritus, Greek philosopher (460 BC - 370 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (10)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Hippocrates of Iphicrates, Island of Cos physician and writer, Father of Medicine (460 BC - 377 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (11)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Agesilaus, the Great, Greek king of Sparta (455 BC - 361 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (6)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Empedocles, Greek poet, physicist and philosopher (455? BC - 395 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Alcibiades, Athenian general and politician (450 BC? - 404 BC?)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Agathon, Greek tragic poet (c. 448 BC - 400 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Aristophanes, Greek poet and satirist (c. 448 BC - c. 380 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (13)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Eupolis, Greek poet (c. 446 BC - 411 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Antisthenes, Greek philosopher and founder of Cynic school (444 BC - c. 371 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (8)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Isocrates, Athenian orator (436 BC - 338 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (5)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Lysander, Greek general and statesman (? - 395 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Alcidamus, Greek rhetorician (c. 432 BC - 411 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Dionysius the Elder, Syracusan tyrant (c. 431 BC - 367 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Archytas of Tarentum, Greek general, mathematician and philosopher (fl. 400 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Cratinus, the Younger, Greek comic poet (fl. 400 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Dionysius of Heraclea, Italian Stoic philosopher (fl. 400 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Xenophon, Greek general, historian and essayist (c. 430 BC - after 357 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (12)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Plato (originally Aristocles}, Greek philosopher (c. 427 BC - 347 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (82)     CHECK READING LIST (4)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Aristippus, Greek philosopher and founder of the Cyrenaic school (425? BC - 366? BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Ezra (Esdras), Hebrew scribe and priest (5th century BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Brennus, Celtic leader of the Senonian Gauls (fl. 390 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Iphicrates, Athenian general (419 BC - 348 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Diogenes ("The Cynic"), Greek philosopher (412 BC - 323 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Phocion, Athenian general and patriot (402? BC - 317 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Anaxandrides, Greek comic poet (fl. 370 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Scopas, Greek sculptor and architect (400 BC - 320 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Antipater, Macedonian general and statesman (398? BC - 319 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Xenocrates, Greek philosopher (396 BC - 314 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Dionysius the Younger, Syracusan tyrant (c. 367 BC - 356 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Antiphanes of Macedonia, Greek comic poet (fl. 360 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (4)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Aeschines, Greek statesman and orator (389 BC - 314 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384 BC - 322 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (154)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Antigonus I ("The Cyclops") (Antigonius), Phrygian ruler and one of Alexander's generals (382? BC - 301 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Demosthenes, Greek orator and statesman (382 BC - 322 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (21)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Philip of Macedon, Macedonian king, father of Alexander the Great (382 BC - 336 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Archidamus III, Greek king of Sparta (fl. 350 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Demades, Greek orator and politician (fl. 350 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Phryne, Athenian courtesan (fl. 350 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Tachos, Egyptian king (c. 350 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pyrrho, Greek philosopher and skeptic (c. 376 BC - 270 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Demodocus, Greek epigrammatist (4th century BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Mencius, Chinese philosopher (371 BC - 289 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (25)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Theodorus of Cyrene, Greek philosopher (fl. 340 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi), Chinese philosopher (369 BC - 286 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Parmenio, Macedonian general under Alexander (fl. 335 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Archestratus, Greek naturalistic poet (fl. 330 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Philemon, Greek poet of new comedy (360? BC - 262? BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (5)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pytheas, Greek mariner of Marseilles (c. 330 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Alexander, the Great, Macedonian general and ruler (356 BC - 323 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (3)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Apelles, Greek painter (fl. 325 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Cercidas of Crete, Greek epigrammatist (c. 325 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Menedemus, Greek philosopher (350 BC? - 276 BC?)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Appius Caecus Claudius ("The Censor"), Roman censor, dictator and poet, started building of Appian Way (fl. 312 BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Epicurus, Greek philosopher (341 BC - 271 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (17)     CHECK READING LIST (2)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Menander, Greek dramatic poet (c. 341 BC - c. 293 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (19)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Qu Yuan, Chinese poet and patriot (340 BC - 278 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Amphis, Greek playwright (4th century BC)   ---   BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Bion of Smyrna, Greek popular philosopher and poet (c. 325 BC - c. 255 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (6)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Euclid, Greek geometer (c. 323 BC - 283 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (2)     CHECK READING LIST (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Pyrrhus, Epirus king (318? BC - 272 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Arcesilaus, Greek philosopher (c. 316 BC - c. 241 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Appius Claudius Caecus, Roman orator (c. 312 BC - 278 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (1)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  
Callimachus, Greek poet and grammarian (310 BC - 240 BC)   ---   READ QUOTES (4)     BUY AMAZON BOOK  

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