Ruth Padel

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1. Ruth Padel

   Author of 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem: A Poem for Every Week of the Year, Whom Gods Destroy, In and Out of the Mind

2. Don Paterson

   Author of Nil Nil, 101 Sonnets: From Shakespeare to Heaney, Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Modern Poets in Their Own Words

3. Carol Ann Duffy

   Author of The World's Wife, Selected Poems: Carol Ann Duffy (Penguin Poetry Library), Feminine Gospels

4. Josiah Ober

   Author of Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People, The Athenian Revolution, Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule

5. Alice Oswald

   Author of Dart, Woods etc., Weeds and Wild Flowers

6. Nicole Loraux

   Author of Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman, The Children of Athena, The invention of Athens : the funeral oration in the classical city

7. Neil Astley

   Author of Staying alive : real poems for unreal times, Being Alive: The Sequel to "Staying Alive"

8. Wendy Cope

   Author of Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Serious Concerns, If I Don't Know

9. Simon Armitage

   Author of Kid, Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems (Faber Poetry), Zoom!

10. Simon Goldhill

    Author of Reading Greek Tragedy, The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature

11. Sophocles

    Author of Trachiniae [in Greek], Ajax; Electra; Oedipus The King [Sophocles I], Sophocles: Fragments (Loeb Classical Library No. 483)

12. John J. Winkler

    Author of The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (New Ancient World Series), Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context

13. M. L. West

    Author of Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of Homer (Loeb Classical Library No. 496), Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC (Loeb Classical Library No. 497), Introduction to Greek Metre (Oxford University Press Academ)

14. Jean-Pierre Vernant

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

15. Ted Hughes

    Author of Crow, By Heart

16. Froma I. Zeitlin

    Author of Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature

17. Peter Sansom

    Author of Writing Poems (Bloodaxe Poetry Handbooks)

18. Sarah Pomeroy

    Author of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, Women's History and Ancient History

19. 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)

20. Linda France

    Author of Sixty Women Poets