Lesley Adkins

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1. Lesley Adkins

   Author of Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome, Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece, Dictionary of Roman Religion

2. John Boardman

   Author of The Oxford History of the Roman World, The Greeks Overseas, Athenian Black Figure Vases: A Handbook

3. Julius Caesar

   Author of Commentaries on the Gallic War, The Civil War

4. Walter Burkert

   Author of Greek Religion, Ancient Mystery Cults (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures), Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

5. Tom Holland

   Author of Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

6. William Dalrymple

   Author of From the Holy Mountain, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India, In Xanadu

7. Giles Milton

   Author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History, The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller, White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves

8. John E. Stambaugh

   Author of The Ancient Roman City (Ancient Society and History), Sources for the Study of Greek Religion (Sources for Biblical Study)

9. Livy

   Author of History of Rome, books 6-10, History of Rome, books 31-45

10. Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner

    Author of The Egyptians, Egyptian Grammar (Egyptology: Griffith Institute)

11. John Julius Norwich

    Author of A History of Venice, Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, Byzantium: The Apogee

12. Jerome Carcopino

    Author of Daily Life in Ancient Rome

13. Alf Henrikson

    Author of Alla tider : en världshistoria, Kinesisk historia, Det västliga Hellas

14. Rosalie David

    Author of The Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt

15. Maurice de Bévère

    Author of Lucky Luke, tome 43 : Le Cavalier Blanc, Lucky Luke, tome 41 : L'Héritage de Rantanplan, Lucky Luke, tome 27 : Le 20ème de cavalerie

16. Simon Hornblower

    Author of The Oxford Classical Dictionary, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization

17. Suetonius

    Author of The Twelve Caesars

18. Sarah Pomeroy

    Author of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History

19. Joyce Tyldesley

    Author of Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh, Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt (Penguin History), THE MUMMY

20. H. H. Scullard

    Author of From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68