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Overviews on Ancient Writers

These links go to the e-book Ancient Writers Greece and Rome / Luce. 
Each chapter gives an extensive overview of the author and his works followed by
bibliographies listing texts, translations, commentaries, and critical studies.
The articles provide more information than you will get from Wikipedia. 

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Aeschylus
Ammianus Marcellinus
Apuleius
Aristophanes 
Aristotle 
Caesar
Callimachus
Catullus
Cicero
Demosthenes
Epictetus
Euripides
Greek Lyric Poetry 
Herodotus 
Homer
Horace 
Isocrates 
Josephus 
Juvenal 
Livy 
Longinus
Lucan 
Lucian
Lucretius
Marcus Aurelius
Martial
Menander

Ovid

Persius
Petronius
Pindar
Plato
Plautus
Pliny the Younger
Plutarch
Polybius 
Propertius
Quintilian
Sallust 
Seneca
Sophocles
Statius 
Suetonius
Tacitus
Terence
Thucydides
Tibullus
Virgil 
Xenophon 
Hellenistic Poetry at Alexandria