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This week's featured author pages

David Gemmell (1948 - 0) -- Fantasies Best, A Writer Without Compare

Xenophanes (560 - 470) -- Pre-Socratic philosopher who was critical of traditional theology and epistemology

Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) -- Victorian poet

William B. Yeats (1865 - 1939) -- Irish poet, who wrote pieces of simple style related to pagan mythology. Chief proponent of the Irish Renaissance movement.

Epictetus (55 - 135) -- Epictetus developed a Stoic ethics and led a life in accordance with them, professing to be indifferent to physical, societal, and psychological pain