Late Antique Writers

Can you guess these writers who flourished during the years of Late Antiquity (250-750 CE) in the Mediterranean region?

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Major Works	Language	Writer
Letters, On the Faith	Latin	Ambrose
Res Gestae	Latin	Ammianus Marcellinus
City of God, Confessions	Latin	Augustine
Mosella, Ephemeris, Rank of Noble Cities	Latin	Ausonius
On the Holy Spirt, Address to Young Men on Greek Literature	Greek	Basil
Consolation of Philosophy	Latin	Boethius
Sermons, Rule of Virgins	Latin	Caesarius
Commentary on the Psalms, Letters	Latin	Cassiodorus
De Raptu Proserpinae, Panegyrics	Latin	Claudian
Lives of Philosophers and Sophists	Greek	Eunapius
Church History, Life of Constantine	Greek	Eusebius
Orations, Letters	Greek	Gregory Nazianzen
On the Soul and the Resurrection, Letters	Greek	Gregory of Nyssa
Vulgate Bible, Commentaries	Latin	Jerome
Institutes, Conferences	Latin	John Cassian
Sermons, Letters, Adversus Judaeos	Greek	John Chrysostom
Chronography	Greek	John Malalas
Getica	Latin	Jordanes
Orations, Letters	Greek	Libanius

Major Works	Language	Writer
Saturnalia	Latin	Macrobius
On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury	Latin	Martianus Capella
Dionysiaca	Greek	Nonnus
Commentaries on Plato and Aristotle, Life of Plato	Greek	Olympiodorus
History against the Pagans	Latin	Orosius
Introduction, Philosophy from Oracles, Against the Christians	Greek	Porphyry
Cento Vergilianus de Laudibus Christi	Latin	Proba
History of the Wars, The Buildings, Secret History	Greek	Procopius
Chronicle, Calling of All Nations	Latin	Prosper
Psychomachia, Against Symmachus	Latin	Prudentius
On the Government of God	Latin	Salvian
Church History	Greek	Socrates Scholasticus
Church History	Greek	Sozomen
Relationes	Latin	Symmachus
Church History	Greek	Theodoret
History, Physical Problems	Greek	Theophylact Simocatta
Epitoma Rei Militaris	Latin	Vegetius
New History	Greek	Zosimus