An Ancient Greek lyric poet living from roughly 582-485 B.C.E., Anacreon was considered among the canonical Nine Lyric Poets of Ancient Greece, alongside Pindar. His most famous works are characterized by their eroticism and revelry.

Authored The Memoirs of Several Ladies by John Buncle (1755) and The Life of John Buncle, Esq. (two volumes published separately in 1756 and 1766).

A noted Bath philanthropist particularly recognized for postal system reform, he was a friend of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Alexander Pope, and numerous other Illustrious personages in eighteenth-century arts and letters.

Italian novelist, poet, and essayist who traveled extensively. Notable works include: Newtonianismo per la dame (1737) and his letters regarding an extended trip to Russia, collected in his posthumous Viaggi di Russia (1769).

King of Macedonia from 336, Alexander demonstrated brilliance as a general in a campaign that originated as an obsession for vengeance against the Persians and culminated with extending his empire through Egypt and Asia Minor into India. He is known on various occasions for his ruthlessness, heroic bravery, courtesy, and concern for the religious and intellectual heritage of the areas he conquered.

French philosopher and mathematician who assisted Diderot for a time with the Encyclopédie.

Authored Vita del Picaro Guzman d'Alfarache (1599-1604).

A prominent politician and army officer, Albemarle was a close friend and political ally of William, duke of Cumberland.

Poet and physician known especially for The Pleasures of Imagination (1744; subsequently revised and expanded) and for his odes, especially those collected in Odes on Several Subjects (1745).

Daughter of the historian and physician John Aikin and neice of poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin was a versatile and successful author of poetry, fiction, children's literature, history, memoirs, biographies, correspondence, translations, adaptations, and edited collections. Lucy Aikin was largely educated by her father and her aunt. At the age of 17, she began publishing contributions in journals and soon assisted her father as an editor of his work.