Herodotus

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1. Thucydides

   Author of The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Landmark Thucydides, On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
   All: (3 members)

2. Charles William Eliot

   Author of The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato; The Golden sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlowe; Shakespeare, Sacred Writings, Volume I: Confucian; Hebrew; Christian (Part I)

3. Plutarch

   Author of The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin Classics, L286), Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demostheses and Cicero,Cæsar and Antony
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4. Xenophon

   Author of The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Epics), Economico, Apology of Socrates
   All: (2 members)

5. Tacitus

   Author of The Annals, The Agricola and Germania, The Histories
   All: (1 member)

6. Livius

   Author of The Early History of Rome : Books I-V of the History of Rome from its Foundation (Penguin Classics), Ab urbe condita, libri XXI-XXX, History of Rome, books 6-10

7. Homer

   Author of The Iliad, The Homeric Hymns, Odysseus Returns Home (Penguin Epics)
   All: (1 member)

8. Herodotus

   Author of The Histories (Penguin Classics), Herodoti Historiae, Volume I: Books I-IV (Oxford Classical Texts), The Persian Wars, I: Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library)

9. Aeschylus

   Author of The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Britannica Great Books: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoediae (Oxford Classical Texts)

10. Julius Caesar

    Author of Commentaries on the Gallic War, The Civil War

11. Suetonius

    Author of The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius, Vol. 1: The Lives of the Caesars--Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula (Loeb Classical Library, No. 31, SUETONIUS Vol.II The Lives of the Caesars, II: Claudius. Nero. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. Vespasian. Titus, Domitian. L

12. Lucretius

    Author of On the Nature of the Universe, Britannica Great Books: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, On the Nature of Things, Book III

13. Polybius

    Author of The Rise of the Roman Empire, The Histories: Volume I, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library), The Histories: Volume IV, Books 9-15 (Loeb Classical Library)
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14. Virgil

    Author of The Aeneid, The Eclogues, Virgil, I, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6, Revised Edition (Loeb Classical Library)

15. Arrian

    Author of The Campaigns of Alexander, The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander
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16. Ovid

    Author of Metamorphoses, Heroides. Amores, The Serpent's Teeth

17. Aristotle

    Author of Introduction to Aristotle, On Man in the Universe (Classics Club), Britannica Great Books: Aristotle I

18. Sophocles

    Author of The Three Theban Plays: Antigone ; Oedipus at Colonus ; Oedipus the King, Ajax; Electra; Philoctetes; Women of Trachis, Trachiniae [in Greek]

19. Juvenal

    Author of The Satires of Juvenal, Juvenal and Persius, A. Persi Flacci et D. Iuni Iuuenalis Saturae

20. Plato

    Author of The Symposium, Gorgias, Alcibiades I; Alcibiades II; Hipparchus; Parmenides; Phaedrus; Philebus; Rival Lovers; Symposium [Opera Volume II]