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1. This pupil of Socrates founded a school in his hometown of Megara.
2. This female pupil of Plato was said to have worn men's clothes.
3. This Samian was said to have turned to philosophy in disgust when his teachers were unable to tell him the meaning of 'chaos' in Hesiod.
4. This head of the library of Alexandria taught the bucolic poet Moschus.
5. This freedman, whom Plutarch says was the first to have distinguished between the letters C and G, is further said to have opened the first fee-paying school in Italy in the third century B.C.
6. This Gaul purportedly taught rhetoric to both Cicero and Julius Caesar.
7. This notorious blackmailer was said by Suetonius to have taught rhetoric to both Mark Antony and Augustus.
8. This famous student of Gnaeus Domitius Afer and holder of the chair of Latin rhetoric in Rome suggested that Roman boys should be taught Greek before Latin.
9. This author of a work on correct spelling was said to have taught the Emperor Hadrian.
10. This Alexandrian was said to have taught both the pagan Plotinus and the Christian Origen among other famous students.
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