Aeschylus
(c. 525-456 BC)
Works
Surviving Plays
- The Oresteia (458 BC) - a trilogy consisting of:
- Agamemnon (458 BC)
- The Choephori (458 BC); also called The Libation Bearers
- The Eumenides (458 BC); also called The Furies
- The Persians (472 BC)
- Prometheus Bound (c. 478-430? BC)
- Seven Against Thebes (467 BC)
- The Suppliant Maidens (463 BC); also called The Suppliants or The Suppliant Women
Lost Plays (only fragments have survived):
- Myrmidons
- Nereids
- Niobe
- Phrygians (or, Hector's Ransom)
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
- Brother Lawrence (c. 1605-1691)
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- (The Mayflower Compact) (1620)
- Molière (1622-1673)
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- John Bunyan (1628-1688)
- Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
- Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
- John Locke (1632-1704)
- Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
- George Berkeley (1685-1753)
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
- John Wesley (1703-1791)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- David Hume (1711-1776)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
- Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
- Adam Smith (1723-1790)
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
- Edward Gibbon (1737-1795)
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
- James Boswell (1740-1795)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
- Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794)
- John Jay (1745-1829)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
