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This week's featured author pages

Plutarch (46 - 120) -- Greek biographer, famous for his telling of the lives of the philosophers

Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) -- French writer, famed for his Fables, a collection of poems

Aesop (620 - 560) -- Greek author of famous animal fables.

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) -- prominent as a physicist and mathematician, Pascal is remembered in philosophy for his writings on human nature and theology

Euripides (485 - 406) -- Ancient Greek tragedian who concentrated on the exploration of psychological situations of ordinary characters.