Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1922–2009)

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1. Hugh Lloyd-Jones

   Author of The justice of Zeus, Blood for the ghosts : classical influences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Greek in a Cold Climate

2. Pindar

   Author of Carmina cum fragmentis, Pindar: Nemean Odeas, Isthmian Odes, Fragments, Pindar: Victory Odes: Olympians 2, 7 and 11; Nemean 4; Isthmians 3, 4 and 7 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

3. Henry Steele Commager

   Author of Virgil: A Collection of Critical Essays, The Odes of Horace: A Critical Study

4. Walter Burkert

   Author of Greek Religion, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Revealing Antiquity)

5. Kenneth Dover

   Author of Greek Homosexuality, Aristophanic Comedy

6. Francis Macdonald Cornford

   Author of From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation, Thucydides Mythistoricus

7. Robert C.T. Parker

   Author of Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Clarendon Paperbacks), Athenian Religion: A History

8. Jean-Pierre Vernant

   Author of Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, Myth and Society in Ancient Greece, Mortals and Immortals

9. E.R. Dodds

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

10. C. Leonard Woolley

    Author of Digging Up the Past, A Forgotten Kingdom

11. M. I. Finley

    Author of Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, A history of Sicily

12. Apollonius of Rhodes

    Author of The Argonautica, book 3

13. David A. Campbell

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

14. Albin Lesky

    Author of History of Greek Literature

15. Carl Darling Buck

    Author of Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin

16. William Watson Goodwin

    Author of Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb

17. Boris Ford

    Author of The Age of Chaucer: Pelican Guide to English Literature, From Donne to Marvell

18. John Dewar Denniston

    Author of Greek Prose Style

19. Aeschylus

    Author of Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoediae (Oxford Classical Texts)

20. Thomas G. Rosenmeyer

    Author of The Green Cabinet: Theocritus and the European Pastoral Lyric (Campus)