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This week's featured author pages

Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) -- writer, whose most famous novels were set in the American West

Anaxagoras (500 - 428) -- influential pre-Socratic philosopher

Cesare Beccaria (1738 - 1794) -- Italian jurist who, preempting Bentham, encouraged the improvement of prison systems in Europe

Theophrastus (371 - 287) -- successor of Aristotle, who developed the latter's philosophy in important respects

Sappho (630 - 612) -- One of the great Greek lyrists and few known female poets of the ancient world.