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1. Adrian Goldsworthy

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

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. Peter Heather

   Author of The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, The Goths (The Peoples of Europe), The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century: An Ethnographic Perspective (Studies in Historical Archa

5. 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

6. Averil Cameron

   Author of The Later Roman Empire, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 393-565 (Routledge History of the Ancient World), The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 14: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, AD 425-600

7. Bryan Ward-Perkins

   Author of The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

8. John Boardman

   Author of The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 4: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean, c.525 to 479 BC, The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3, Part 1: The Prehistory of the Balkans, the Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eighth Centuries BC, The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3, Part 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC

9. Roger Crowley

   Author of 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

10. Procopius

    Author of The Secret History, Procopius in Seven Volumes. IV: History of the Wars, Books VI.16-VII.35, Procopius in Seven Volumes. III: History of the Wars, Books V-VI.15

11. Peter S. Wells

    Author of The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest, Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered, The Barbarians Speak

12. Chris Wickham

    Author of The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000, Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

13. Ammianus Marcellinus

    Author of The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378 (Penguin Classics), Ammianus Marcellinus: Roman History, Volume II, Books 20-26 (Loeb Classical Library No. 315)

14. Donald Kagan

    Author of The Peloponnesian War

15. Victor Davis Hanson

    Author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

16. E. A. Thompson

    Author of The Huns (The Peoples of Europe), The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila, Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

17. Walter A. Goffart

    Author of Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584, The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, And Paul the Deacon (Publications in Medieval Studies), Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire (The Middle Ages Series)

18. Peter Robert Lamont Brown

    Author of The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750, The Making of Late Antiquity (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures), Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

19. I. E. S. Edwards

    Author of The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 2, Part 1: The Middle East and the Aegean Region, c.1800-1380 BC, The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East, The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 1, Part 1: Prolegomena and Prehistory

20. Edward N. Luttwak

    Author of The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third