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This week's featured author pages

Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771) -- eighteenth century English poet

Porphyry (232 - 305) -- Greek philosopher, student of Plotinus and Neoplatonism

Diogenes the Cynic (304 - 323) -- notorious Greek cynic philosopher

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) -- evolutionist, an advocater of Social Darwinism, and originator of sociology

Ovid (43 - 17) -- Roman poet whose often frivolous verse has never ceased to be entertaining and inspiriational.