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Gaius Julius Hyginus

64 BC –17

Writer, Mythographer, Poet, Astronomer, Grammarian

Lived 80 years

Born in
Hispania
Passed away in
Rome

Gaius Julius Hyginus (; c. 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Augustus, and reputed author of the Fabulae and the De astronomia, although this is disputed.

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus