English peer, son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire, and brother-in-law of John Dryden.

One of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities. He served many functions, most notably god of kingship and the sky. He was known as Harpocrates to the Ptolemaic Greeks, and was represented in a youthful form, which signified the rising sun.

A poet known for his satires, odes, and verse epistles, Horace also authored Ars Poetica (c. 19 B.C.), a major landmark in the history of literary criticism and theory.

A little-known English actress and playwright, Rachael Hoper produced three plays between 1742 and 1760.

Younger brother of Arcadius, Emperor of the East, Honorius ruled the western half of the Roman empire.

Greek poet reputed to be the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Considered during the eighteenth century to be the paradigmatic example of the inspired and primitive bardic poet, Homer became the single most influential poet of all time.

Scottish poet, dramatist, historian, and clergyman. Douglas, his best remembered drama, opened in 1756. His The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745 appeared in 1802.

First Baron Holland of Foxley and notable eighteenth-century British politician. He attended Eton College in 1775 where he became acquainted with Henry Fielding.

English chronicler whose popular The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande provided much source material for Elizabethan authors such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe.

Radical journalist, critic, novelist, translator, and playwright; Holcroft's two most important novels include Anna St. Ives (1792), a novel that reworks plot and character elements of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747-9) to shape a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), and The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794), which offers a more general satire on the established order. The majority of his plays were comedies, though later work includes the dark, unsuccessful drama, The Inquisitor (1798).