Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984)

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1. David Grene

   Author of Greek Tragedies, Volume 1, Greek Tragedies, Volume 3

2. Aeschylus

   Author of The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, The Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; The Suppliants, Greek Tragedies, Volume 2

3. Aristophanes

   Author of The Complete Plays of Aristophanes, 3 Plays: Frogs / Wasps / Women at the Thesmophoria, 4 Plays: Birds / Clouds / Frogs / Lysistrata

4. Euripides

   Author of 4 Plays: Alcestis / Children of Heracles / Hippolytus / Medea, Ten Plays by Euripides, 3 Plays: Bacchae / Electra / Phoenician Women

5. Hesiod

   Author of Works and Days and Theogony, Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield of Herakles, Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica

6. Richmond Lattimore

   Author of Greek Lyrics, The Four Gospels and the Revelation, Acts and letters of the Apostles

7. Ovid

   Author of Metamorphoses, The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics), Ars Amatoria: Book I (Ars Amatoria)

8. Sophocles

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

9. M. I. Finley

   Author of The World of Odysseus, The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius (Viking Portable Library), The Ancient Greeks (Penguin History)

10. Homer

    Author of The Iliad, The Homeric Hymns

11. H. D. F. Kitto

    Author of The Greeks, Greek Tragedy

12. Horace

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

13. Thucydides

    Author of The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Landmark Thucydides

14. Virgil

    Author of The Aeneid, Aeneid, books 1-6

15. Theocritus

    Author of The Idylls, Greek Bucolic Poets: Theocritus. Bion. Moschus (Loeb Classical Library No. 28)

16. Jaroslav Pelikan

    Author of Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages, The Melody of Theology: A Philosophical Dictionary

17. Mark P.O. Morford

    Author of Classical Mythology‎

18. Tacitus

    Author of The Annals, Complete Works of Tacitus, The Annals & The Histories

19. Apollonius of Rhodes

    Author of The Argonautica, The Argonautica, book 3

20. E.R. Dodds

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