W. K. C. Guthrie (1906–1981)

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1. W. K. C. Guthrie

   Author of The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle, The Greeks and Their Gods, Orpheus and Greek Religion (Mythos Books)

2. Karl Kerenyi

   Author of Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, The Heroes of the Greeks

3. Gregory Vlastos

   Author of Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher, Plato II: Ethics, Politics, and Philosophy of Art, Religion: A Collection of Critical Essays, Platonic Studies

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. G. S. Kirk

   Author of The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts, The Nature of Greek Myths, Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures (Sather Classical Lectures)

6. Werner Jaeger

   Author of Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture Volume I: Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens, Paideia: the Ideals of Greek Culture (Volumes I, II, III), Aristotle : Fundamentals of the History of His Development - Second Edition (PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY)

7. M. I. Finley

   Author of The World of Odysseus, The Ancient Greeks (Penguin History), Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies

8. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

   Author of Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Vol. III: The Consummate Religion (Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion), Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Vol. I: Introduction and The Concept of Religion, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Vol. II: Determinate Religion (Vol 2)

9. Francis Macdonald Cornford

   Author of Before and After Socrates, From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation, The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays

10. E.R. Dodds

    Author of The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures), The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief (Clarendon Paperbacks)

11. A. A. Long

    Author of The Hellenistic Philosophers, Vol. I, Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics, Second edition, The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy

12. Jane Ellen Harrison

    Author of Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Mythos Books), Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion

13. Maurice Bowra

    Author of The Greek Experience, Ancient Greek Literature, Pindar

14. Martin P. Nilsson

    Author of Greek Folk Religion, A history of Greek religion, The Mycenaean origin of Greek mythology

15. H. D. F. Kitto

    Author of The Greeks, Greek Tragedy

16. Moses Hadas

    Author of Three Greek Romances, Ancilla to Classical Reading, A History of Greek Literature

17. Sir Ronald Syme

    Author of The Roman Revolution, Tacitus

18. Aristotle

    Author of Complete Works, Categories ; On Interpretation, Posterior Analytics ; Topica

19. Lucian

    Author of Lucian: Volume III (Loeb Classical Library 130), Lucian: Volume V (Loeb Classical Library 302)

20. Martha C. Nussbaum

    Author of The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics