Simon Hornblower

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1. Virgil

   Author of Aeneid, books 1-6, Opera, Virgil, Volume II : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64)

2. Henry George Liddell

   Author of An intermediate Greek-English lexicon, Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon

3. Homer

   Author of The Iliad: Volume I, Books 1-12 (Loeb Classical Library No. 170), The Odyssey, Books 13-24, Homer: Iliad Book XXIV (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

4. Thucydides

   Author of The Landmark Thucydides, Historiae, Volume I (Oxford Classical Texts Series) (Oxford Classical Texts Series), Historiae, Volume II (Oxford Classical Texts Series) (Oxford Classical Texts Series)

5. David A. Campbell

   Author of Greek Lyric Poetry: A Selection of Early Greek Lyric, Elegiac and Iambic Poetry

6. P. G. W. Glare

   Author of Oxford Latin Dictionary

7. Herbert Weir Smyth

   Author of Greek Grammar

8. Hesiod

   Author of Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, Works and Days, Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, Fragmenta Selecta (Oxford Classical Texts)

9. Simon Hornblower

   Author of The Oxford Classical Dictionary, A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume I: Books I - III, A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24

10. A.R. Burn

    Author of The Persian Wars, The Lyric Age

11. Sir Ronald Syme

    Author of The Roman Revolution

12. Suetonius

    Author of The Twelve Caesars

13. F. W. Walbank

    Author of The Hellenistic world, The Hellenistic Age

14. M. I. Finley

    Author of The World of Odysseus, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, Politics in the Ancient World (Canto original series)

15. H. H. Scullard

    Author of From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68

16. N. Marinone

    Author of All the Greek Verbs

17. Euripides

    Author of Bacchae [Greek text], 4 Plays: Andromache / Children of Heracles / Hecuba / Hippolytus

18. Charlton T. Lewis

    Author of Latin Dictionary Founded on Andrew's Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary

19. M. C. Howatson

    Author of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature

20. Joseph Henry Allen

    Author of Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar