Ammianus Marcellinus
The last of the major historians of the western Roman Empire, Ammianus Marcellinus (~330-395) was a pagan Greek writing in Latin.
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Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC, was an outspoken defender of republican principles amidst the civil wars that destroyed the existing order and gave rise to the Roman Empire.
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Plutarch
Plutarch's classic biographies of ancient Greek and Roman heroes, and his essays, were the inspiration of the Renaissance.
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