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Aeschylus

Ekrem Akurgal

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Saul Bellow

Bernard Berenson

David M. Bevington

Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Thomas Bulfinch

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Samuel Butler

C. Iulius Caesar

public domain
Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Peter David

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alexandre Dumas

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Empedocles

Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Helen Louise Gardner, Dame

John Burlinson
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons photographed by Rachel Lovinger
William Goldman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Baltasar Gracián y Morales

Cervantes Institute
Anthony Grafton

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
C. H Grandgent

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Harley Granville-Barker

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00601)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Edith Hamilton

HarperCollins UK

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Paul Harvey, Sir

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Seamus Heaney

Hesiod

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Henrik Ibsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Mirko Jelusich

Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William L. Langer

Harvard Square Library
Mary R. Lefkowitz

National Humanities Award Ceremony 2006. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Henry George Liddell

H. G. Liddell. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Livy

from Wikipedia
Titus Lucretius Carus

Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
T. R. Malthus

Gabriel García Márquez

Martial

From Wikipedia
Michael Okuda

Mrs Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Parmenides

From Wikipedia
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Mary Renault

Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Herbert Weir Smyth

Bryn Mawr College Archives
Denton J. Snider

Denton Jaques Snider. From page 5 of A brief report of the meeting commemorative of the early Saint Louis movement in philosophy, psychology, literature, art and education : in honor of Dr. Denton J. Snider's eightieth birthday, held January 14th and 15th
Sophocles

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Cornelius Tacitus

Terence

Theocritus

Image from Sixteen select idyls of Theocritus (1839) edited by D. B. Hickie
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J. R. R. Tolkien

Louis Untermeyer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Vergil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJohn Edward Williams

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