Murphysboro Centuries, 6th sacred

Martinus Capella, ?

- wrote the book on the “seven liberal arts” (learning) that was most popular during the dark ages

Donatus and Priscian, ?

- wrote Latin grammars which kept the knowledge of Latin alive (which enabled people to hang on to a relatively unchanging international language of scholarship and knowledge)

Orosius, ?

- a student of Augustine and a very bad historian, he wrote a famous book “summarizing” ancient history and showing how bad paganism was