Paul Roche (1916–2007)

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1. Sophocles

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

2. Aeschylus

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

3. Homer

   Author of The Odyssey, The Iliad, The Homeric Hymns

4. Aristophanes

   Author of 3 Plays: Acharnians / Clouds / Lysistrata, The Complete Plays of Aristophanes

5. Marcus Tullius Cicero

   Author of Selected Works, Selected Political Speeches

6. Thucydides

   Author of The History of the Peloponnesian War

7. Hesiod

   Author of Works and Days and Theogony, Theogony

8. Ovid

   Author of Metamorphoses

9. Jonathan Barnes

   Author of Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin Classics)

10. Menander

    Author of Plays and Fragments (Penguin Classics)

11. Mark P.O. Morford

    Author of Classical Mythology‎

12. Herodotus

    Author of The Histories (Penguin Classics)

13. Virgil

    Author of The Aeneid

14. D. P. Simpson

    Author of Cassell's Latin Dictionary

15. Plautus

    Author of The Pot of Gold and Other Plays

16. Frederic M. Wheelock

    Author of Wheelock's Latin

17. Lucretius

    Author of On the Nature of the Universe

18. Apollonius of Rhodes

    Author of The Argonautica

19. Livius

    Author of The Early History of Rome : Books I-V of the History of Rome from its Foundation (Penguin Classics)

20. Aristotle

    Author of Nicomachean Ethics