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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

9 American Countercultural Books

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Is Australia an Island?

United States Electoral College votes by state

How Many Electoral College Votes Does Each U.S. State Have?

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Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

pg 229Nazi parade features a banner proclaiming, "Death to Marxism."The possibility of a peaceful Germany after World War I was precluded entirely by the terms of the Versailles Treaty and theintransigent hostility of France and England. Stripped of indu

Were the Nazis Socialists?

Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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Flourished	c.499 BCE - c.400 BCE

Quintilian

Roman rhetorician

Isocrates

Greek orator and rhetorician

Lucian

Greek writer

Antiphon

Greek writer and statesman

Isaeus

Greek speech writer

Lysias

Greek writer

Herodes Atticus

Greek orator and author

Dio Chrysostom

Greek philosopher

Longinus

Greek literary critic

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Greek historian

Libanius

Greek rhetorician

Caecilius of Calacte

Greek rhetorician

Gorgias of Leontini

Greek Sophist

Gaius Asinius Pollio

Roman historian and orator

Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Roman orator

Eumenius

Roman orator and teacher

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Roman author

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Homer

Greek poet

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Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.

An Odyssey of Grecian Literature

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