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Empedocles
Empedocles (; ; , 444–443 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is known best for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements. He also proposed forces he called Love and Strife which would mix and separate the elements, respectively.
Pindar
Pindar (; ; ; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced
Zeno of Elea
Greek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC)
Pharnabazos I, Satrap of Phrygia
5th-century BCE satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia
Myrtis
thumb|200px|Myrtis' reconstructed appearance, National archaeological museum of athens|National Archaeological Museum of Athens Myrtis () is the name given by archaeologists to an 11-year-old girl from ancient Athens, whose remains were discovered in 1994–95 in a mass grave during work to build the metro station at Kerameikos, Greece. The name was chosen from common ancient Greek names. The analysis showed that Myrtis and two other bodies in the mass grave had died of typhoid fever during the Plague of Athens in 430 BC.
Lars Tolumnius
Etruscan king of Veii (died 437 BC)
Malewiebamani
Malewiebamani was a Kushite King of Meroë.