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This week's featured author pages

Chrysippus (280 - 207) -- important leader of the Stoic school of thought in Greece

Sappho (630 - 612) -- One of the great Greek lyrists and few known female poets of the ancient world.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980) -- also a playwright, novelist, and critic, all of Sartre's work is touched by his existential worldview

Ã?mile Zola (1840 - 1902) -- leading figure in the French school of naturalism

Antisthenes (440 - 360) -- a student of Socrates, Antisthenes' philosophy of cynicism exerted an important influence on Diogenes