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This week's featured author pages

Gaius Julius Caesar (102 - 44) -- Roman politician and military genius, whose Commentaries have left us an astonishing account of his military campaigns

P.G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) -- Anglo-American author, remembered best for his humourous fictional characters such as Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves

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

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) -- one of the greatest French poets of the 19th century

Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) -- a brilliant mathematician and physicist, Newton was also interested in theology and alchemy