Amelia Opie was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828. A Bluestocking, Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich, England. Hers was the first of 187,000 names presented to the British Parliament on a petition from women to stop slavery.
Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicised as Ammian, was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity. His work, known as the Res gestae, chronicled in Latin the history of Rome from the accession of the Emperor Nerva in 96 to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378, although only the sections covering the period 353 to 378 survive.
Amos Bronson Alcott was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a plant-based diet. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.
Amy Catherine Walton, born Amy Catherine Deck and better known as Mrs O. F. Walton, was an English author of Christian children's books, mainly but not exclusively fictional. She was the daughter of an Anglican priest and married his curate, with whom she spent four years living in Jerusalem.
Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school, which promoted a return to classical values. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.
Ana de Castro Osório OSE • ComMAI foi uma escritora, especialmente no domínio da literatura infantil, jornalista, pedagoga, feminista e activista republicana portuguesa.
Anacréon, né vers -550 à Téos, en Ionie, mort vers -464, est l'un des plus grands poètes lyriques grecs avec Alcée de Mytilène, Archiloque de Paros et Sappho. Il fut surnommé « Le chantre de Téos » et « Le vieillard de Téos ».
Anakreon oli antiikin kreikkalainen lyyrinen runoilija, joka oli kotoisin Teoksesta. Hellenistisellä kaudella hänet luettiin yhdeksi yhdeksästä lyyrisestä runoilijasta.
