All periods of history, from antiquity to the present, have brought forth their own celebrated writers, men and women whose words continue to attract eager readers when those of most contemporaries have faded away. In this quiz we remember ten of the great and near-great throughout the ages.

Erasmus of Rotterdam Writing, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543)
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