Robin Lane Fox

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1. Robin Lane Fox

   Author of The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian, Pagans and Christians, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible

2. John Julius Norwich

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

3. 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

4. Adrian Goldsworthy

   Author of Caesar: Life of a Colossus, The Fall of the West (UK) / How Rome Fell (US), In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Phoenix Press)

5. Elaine Pagels

   Author of The Gnostic Gospels, The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

6. Peter Robert Lamont Brown

   Author of Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750, The Body and Society

7. Michael Grant

   Author of The Twelve Caesars, Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels, Nero

8. Christopher Lloyd

   Author of The Well-Tempered Garden, The Adventurous Gardener, Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers: Perennials, Bulbs, Grasses, Ferns

9. 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

10. Ramsay MacMullen

    Author of Christianizing the Roman Empire: (A. D. 100-400) (A.D. 100-400), Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries

11. A. N. Wilson

    Author of Jesus : A Life, Paul: The Mind of the Apostle, God's Funeral: The Decline of Faith in Western Civilization

12. Richard J. Evans

    Author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power

13. Graham Stuart Thomas

    Author of Perennial Garden Plants or the Modern Florilegium, Colour in the winter garden, Ornamental Shrubs, Climbers and Bamboos

14. Christian Meier

    Author of Julius Caesar

15. Wayne A. Meeks

    Author of The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul, The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries

16. Paul Cartledge

    Author of The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World

17. Donald Kagan

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

18. Mary Beard

    Author of The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found, The Roman Triumph

19. Steven Runciman

    Author of A History of the Crusades, Volume I : The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, A History of the Crusades, Volume III : The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades

20. M. I. Finley

    Author of The World of Odysseus