im going to just put some author names in while i think of them and you can all tell me if x is shit or y is missing.

thucydides, aristotle, plato, aeschylus, sophocles, euripides

virgil, ovid, cicero, tacitus, horace, lucretius

chaucer, dante, boccacio, beowulf poet

shakespeare, cervantes, montaigne, machiavelli, descartes, voltaire

hobbes, dickens, goethe, dostoevsky, melville