Bernard Knox (1914–2010)

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1. Bernard Knox

   Author of The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections on the Classics, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time, Essays Ancient and Modern

2. Homer

   Author of The Odyssey, Books 13-24, Homer: Iliad Book XXIV (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics), The Odyssey, Books VI-VIII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

3. Edith Hamilton

   Author of The Greek Way, The Roman Way

4. M. I. Finley

   Author of The World of Odysseus, Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies, Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages (Ancient Culture and Society)

5. Thucydides

   Author of The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Landmark Thucydides, Historiae, Volume I (Oxford Classical Texts Series) (Oxford Classical Texts Series)

6. Virgil

   Author of Opera, Aeneid, Book 2, Aeneid, book 10

7. Seneca the Younger

   Author of Apocolocyntosis, Seneca, Volume IV, Epistles 1-65 (Loeb Classical Library No. 75), Seneca: Naturales Quaestiones, Books 1-3 (Loeb Classical Library No. 450)

8. P. E. Easterling

   Author of The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge Companions to Literature), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

9. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Discoverers, The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

10. Horace

    Author of Epodes and Odes, Horace: Epistles Book II and Ars Poetica (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics), Horace on Poetry:Epistles Book II: The Letters to Augustus and Florus (Brink: Horace on Poetry)

11. Herodotus

    Author of The Histories (Penguin Classics), Herodoti Historiae, Volume I: Books I-IV (Oxford Classical Texts), Historiae, Volume II: Books V-IX

12. Michael Grant

    Author of Readings in the Classical Historians

13. Donald Kagan

    Author of The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (Cornell Paperbacks), The Fall of the Athenian Empire, The Archidamian War (Cornell Paperbacks)

14. Harold Bloom

    Author of The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

15. Aeschylus

    Author of Persians, Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoediae (Oxford Classical Texts), Eumenides

16. Tom McArthur

    Author of The Oxford Companion to the English Language

17. 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)

18. Kenneth Dover

    Author of Aristophanic Comedy, Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle

19. Demosthenes

    Author of Demosthenes: On the Crown (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics), Demosthenes: Selected Private Speeches (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (English and Greek Edition)

20. Terence

    Author of The Comedies, Adelphoe, Terence: Adelphoe (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)