J. B. Bury (1861–1927)

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1. J. B. Bury

   Author of A history of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great, The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians, History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian (Volume 1)

2. M. I. Finley

   Author of Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies, Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages (Ancient Culture and Society)

3. H. D. F. Kitto

   Author of The Greeks, Greek Tragedy

4. Xenophon

   Author of The Persian Expedition, A History of My Times

5. Alexander A. Vasiliev

   Author of History of the Byzantine Empire: Vol. 1, 324-1453, History of the Byzantine Empire: Vol. 2, 324-1453

6. John Chadwick

   Author of The Decipherment of Linear B, The Mycenaean World

7. Steven Runciman

   Author of The Fall of Constantinople 1453, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (Canto), Byzantine Civilization

8. Michael Grant

   Author of The World of Rome, From Alexander to Cleopatra, The history of ancient Israel

9. John Boardman

   Author of The Oxford History of the Classical World, The Greeks Overseas

10. Warren T. Treadgold

    Author of A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081

11. H. H. Scullard

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

12. A. H. M. Jones

    Author of The Later Roman Empire, 284-602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey. 2 Vol. Set, The Decline of the Ancient World (Longman Paperback)

13. Herwig Wolfram

    Author of History of the Goths, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples

14. M. Cary

    Author of A History of Rome: Down to the Reign of Constantine

15. S. A. Cook

    Author of The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol. VIII (v. 8), The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol. IX, The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 11, The Imperial Peace AD 70-192

16. Julius Caesar

    Author of The Civil War

17. Suetonius

    Author of The Twelve Caesars

18. N. G. L. Hammond

    Author of A History of Greece to 322 B.C.

19. Ammianus Marcellinus

    Author of The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378 (Penguin Classics)

20. Peter Robert Lamont Brown

    Author of The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750, Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity