Paul Cartledge

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1. Paul Cartledge

   Author of The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (Opus), Spartan Reflections

2. Adrian Goldsworthy

   Author of The Punic Wars, In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Phoenix Press), Roman Warfare

3. Donald Kagan

   Author of The Peloponnesian War, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (Cornell Paperbacks), The Archidamian War (Cornell Paperbacks)

4. Victor Davis Hanson

   Author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece, Wars of the Ancient Greeks (Smithsonian History of Warfare)

5. Barry Strauss

   Author of The Trojan War: A New History, The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization, The Spartacus War

6. Anthony Everitt

   Author of Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

7. Robin Lane Fox

   Author of The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian, Alexander the Great, Travelling Heroes: In the Epic Age of Homer

8. Peter Green

   Author of Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography, Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (Hellenistic Culture and Society), The Greco-Persian Wars

9. Tom Holland

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

10. Plutarch

    Author of The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin Classics, L286), Plutarch on Sparta

11. Steven Pressfield

    Author of Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae, Tides of War

12. Xenophon

    Author of The Persian Expedition, The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika

13. Polybius

    Author of The Histories: Volume III, Books 5-8 (Loeb Classical Library), The Histories: Volume IV, Books 9-15 (Loeb Classical Library), The Histories: Volume II, Books 3-4 (Loeb Classical Library)

14. John Keegan

    Author of The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, The American Civil War: A Military History

15. Michael Grant

    Author of The Roman Emperors, The Classical Greeks, From Alexander to Cleopatra

16. Herodotus

    Author of The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, Historiae, Volume II: Books V-IX

17. Peter Heather

    Author of The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe

18. James N. Davidson

    Author of Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World

19. Elaine Fantham

    Author of Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius (Ancient Society and History)

20. J. E. Lendon

    Author of Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity