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Nationality groups authors by the country each one came from. Wikipedia describes Jane Austen as "an English writer known primarily for her six novels," a nationality that placed her firmly within the English gentry society she wrote about. This dimension shows which countries produced the authors behind a given tradition.

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Ancient Rome

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4 entries

Argentina

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3 entries

Australia

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4 entries

Austria

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5 entries

Bangladesh

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1 entry

Belgium

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2 entries

Belize

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1 entry

Botswana

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1 entry

Brazil

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3 entries

Canada

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3 entries

Chile

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3 entries

China

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18 entries

Colombia

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1 entry

Costa Rica

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1 entry

Cuba

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1 entry

Czechia

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2 entries

Denmark

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3 entries

Dominica

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1 entry

Egypt

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England

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1 entry

France

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40 entries

Georgia

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1 entry

Germany

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14 entries

Ghana

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Greece

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12 entries

Hungary

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3 entries

Iceland

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2 entries

India

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15 entries

Iran

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8 entries

Iraq

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1 entry

Ireland

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7 entries

Israel

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2 entries

Italy

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23 entries

Japan

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18 entries

Kenya

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1 entry

Lebanon

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1 entry

Lesotho

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1 entry

Malaysia

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1 entry

Martinique

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1 entry

Mexico

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4 entries

New Zealand

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2 entries

Nigeria

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6 entries

Norway

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4 entries

Pakistan

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2 entries

Peru

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1 entry

Philippines

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1 entry

Poland

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6 entries

Portugal

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3 entries

Puerto Rico

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1 entry

Romania

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2 entries

Russia

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13 entries

Russian Empire

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1 entry

Samoa

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1 entry

Senegal

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2 entries

South Africa

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2 entries

South Korea

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3 entries

Soviet Union

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3 entries

Spain

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8 entries

Sudan

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1 entry

Sweden

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7 entries

Switzerland

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2 entries

Tanzania

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1 entry

Turkey

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3 entries

Ukraine

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1 entry

United Kingdom

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76 entries

United States

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95 entries

Venezuela

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1 entry

Vietnam

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3 entries

Zimbabwe

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2 entries
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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  • Contains: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Contains: Horace Walpole
  • Contains: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Contains: Mary Shelley
  • Contains: Sir Thomas Wyatt
  • Contains: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)
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Did a historical Aesop exist?

Every ancient account of Aesop (Samian enslavement, Delphic death, connections to Croesus and the Seven Sages) is a later, often contradictory legendary tradition compiled centuries after his supposed lifetime; no contemporary record of a person named Aesop survives, and modern classicists hold it is far from certain a historical Aesop ever existed at all.

What would resolve this A contemporary (7th-6th century BCE) inscription, papyrus, or independent literary reference naming Aesop as a real individual, rather than a later biographical or legendary compilation.
Classical philology and ancient historiographyWikipedia: Aesop