Gilbert Highet (1906–1978)

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1. Gilbert Highet

   Author of The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature, Poets in a Landscape, Anatomy of Satire

2. Patrick Leigh Fermor

   Author of A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, Between the Woods and the Water, A Time to Keep Silence

3. Jacques Barzun

   Author of The Modern Researcher, The House of Intellect, Teacher in America

4. Juvenal

   Author of The Satires of Juvenal, Juvenal and Persius, Juvenal: Satires Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

5. Virgil

   Author of The Georgics, The Eclogues, Opera

6. Edmund Wilson

   Author of To the Finland Station, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature

7. Erich Auerbach

   Author of Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Dante : Poet of the Secular World

8. Horace

   Author of The Odes of Horace, Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica (Loeb Classical Library No. 194)

9. M. I. Finley

   Author of The World of Odysseus, Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies

10. H. D. F. Kitto

    Author of The Greeks, Greek Tragedy

11. E.R. Dodds

    Author of The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures)

12. Walter Jackson Bate

    Author of Samuel Johnson, From classic to romantic; premises of taste in eighteenth-century England

13. C. S. Lewis

    Author of The Discarded Image, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama

14. J. B. Bury

    Author of A history of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great, The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

15. George Santayana

    Author of The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory, The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel, Persons and Places: The Background of My Life

16. Sextus Propertius

    Author of Propertius, Elegies (Loeb Classical Library No. 18), Carmina (Oxford Classical Texts Ser)

17. Ernst Robert Curtius

    Author of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

18. John Gross

    Author of The rise and fall of the man of letters: aspects of English literary life since 1800

19. W. H. Auden

    Author of Forewords and Afterwords, The Oxford Book of Light Verse

20. Catullus

    Author of The Poems of Catullus, Carmina