Georges Dumézil (1898–1986)

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1. Georges Dumézil

   Author of Archaic Roman Religion, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, The Destiny of a King

2. Jean-Pierre Vernant

   Author of Origins of Greek Thought, Myth and Society in Ancient Greece, Myth and Thought among the Greeks

3. Émile Benveniste

   Author of Le vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, tome 1 : Economie, parenté, société, Le vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, tome 2 : Pouvoir, droit, religion, Le vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes

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. Paul Veyne

   Author of Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination, Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien (312-394), Roman Erotic Elegy: Love, Poetry, and the West

6. Tacitus

   Author of The Histories, Annalium ab excessu divi Augusti libri I-VI, Tacitus: Annals Book IV (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

7. Hugo Pratt

   Author of Fable of Venice, The Golden House of Samarkand, Corto Maltese : Sous le signe du Capricorne

8. Hilda R. Ellis Davidson

   Author of Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe, The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature

9. Hesiod

   Author of Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, Fragmenta Selecta (Oxford Classical Texts), Fragmenta Hesiodea

10. M. I. Finley

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

11. Gilles Deleuze

    Author of Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, Empiricism and Subjectivity

12. Quentin Skinner

    Author of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 1: The Renaissance, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2: The Age of Reformation, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

13. Henri Irenee Marrou

    Author of Décadence romaine ou Antiquité tardive ?, Histoire de l'éducation dans l'Antiquité, tome 1

14. Sigmund Freud

    Author of Essais de psychanalyse, Five psychoanalyses

15. Jurij M. Lotman

    Author of Semiosfäärist : [artiklivalimik], Kultuur ja plahvatus, Semiotics of Cinema

16. Christopher A. Faraone

    Author of Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, Ancient Greek Love Magic

17. Jacques Le Goff

    Author of Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages, Saint Francis of Assisi, Un autre Moyen Age

18. Marcel Detienne

    Author of The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks, Comparer l'incomparable

19. Theodor W. Adorno

    Author of The Jargon of Authenticity, Against Epistemology: A Metacritique. Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies

20. Claude Lévi-Strauss

    Author of Tristes Tropiques, Structural Anthropology, Race et histoire