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1. Anne Carson

   Author of Autobiography of Red, Eros the Bittersweet, Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan

2. Euripides

   Author of Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, 3 Plays: Alcestis / Cyclops / Medea, 3 Plays: Electra / Heracles / Suppliant Women
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3. W. R. Paton

   Author of Greek Anthology, II, Book 7: Sepulchral Epigrams. Book 8: The Epigrams of St. Gregory the Theologian (Loeb Classical Library), The Greek Anthology, Vol. 5 (Loeb Classic, 86), Greek Anthology: v. 3 (Loeb Classical Library)

4. Homer

   Author of The Homeric Hymns, The Iliad: Volume I, Books 1-12 (Loeb Classical Library No. 170), The Odyssey, Books 13-24
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5. Aristophanes

   Author of 3 Plays: Acharnians / Clouds / Lysistrata, Aristophanes: Clouds. Wasps. Peace (Loeb Classical Library No. 488), 3 Plays: Birds / Lysistrata / Women at the Thesmophoria
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6. Pindar

   Author of The Odes, Olympian odes, Pythian odes, Pindar: Nemean Odeas, Isthmian Odes, Fragments

7. Adrienne Rich

   Author of The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978, Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972

8. Horace

   Author of Epodes and Odes, The Odes of Horace, The Satires

9. 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)

10. Aeschylus

    Author of The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, The Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; The Suppliants, Aeschylus, III, Fragments (Loeb Classical Library No. 505)
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11. Rainer Maria Rilke

    Author of Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition

12. Anacreon

    Author of Greek Lyric II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympis to Alcman (Loeb Classical Library No. 143)

13. Ezra Pound

    Author of The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Selected Poems, ABC of Reading
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14. James Merrill

    Author of The Changing Light at Sandover, Collected Poems

15. Callimachus

    Author of Callimachus: Hymns and Epigrams; Lycophron; and Aratus, Callimachus: Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments.; Musaeus: Hero and Leander (Loeb Classical Library No. 421)

16. Ovidius

    Author of Metamorphoses, The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics), Rakastamisen taito ; Rakkauden parannuskeinot

17. Lillian Faderman

    Author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present

18. Bacchylides

    Author of Greek Lyric: Volume IV, Bacchylides, Corinna, and Others (Loeb Classical Library No. 461)

19. Hesiod

    Author of Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield of Herakles, Hesiod and Theognis (Penguin Classics): Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica

20. Archilochus

    Author of Greek Iambic Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. (Loeb Classical Library No. 259)