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Aeschylus.

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)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Augustus

from Wikipedia
Marcus Aurelius

Averroes

Detail from the 14th century fresco 'Triunfo de Santo Tomás' by Florantine artist Andrea Bonaiuto.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Boethius

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Britannica

Ad for Encyclopædia Britannica published May 1913 in National Geographic.
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Bryce

Davis & Sanford (1904)
Edmund Burke -

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

public domain
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Lewis Carroll

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
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Anna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (Wikipedia)
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Jared Diamond

Cassius Dio

Theodore Ayrault Dodge

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

Will Durant

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Ralph Waldo; Introduction by Edward F. O'Day Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Euripides

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Neil Gaiman

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Goldman

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

The William Graves Collection
Ursula K. Le Guin

Oron James Hale

University Photographer, University of Virginia
Alexander Hamilton

B. H. Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
F. A. Hayek

Seamus Heaney

Robert A. Heinlein

Heraclitus

Detail from "The School of Athens" by Rafael, 1510.
Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert.
Photograph by Janet Herbert.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Hesiod

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
Homer;

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

Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Editor Robert M. Hutchins

University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Henrik Ibsen

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

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

St. Jerome as a Cardinal by El Greco.
B JOWETT

Alfred Gudeman
Christopher Kelly

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Donald Kingsbury

Harold Lamb

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
C. S. Lewis

Henry George Liddell

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

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lucretius

John MacArthur

Matt Floreen
J.P. MAHAFFY

wikimedia commons
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Groucho Marx

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

Philip Matyszak
Colleen McCullough

John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
A.A. Milne

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

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Unknown Artist (Wikimedia Commons)
Theodor Mommsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michel Eyquem Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Napoleon

Painting by Antoine-Jean Gros, circa 1801
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Martin Ostwald

Swarthmore College.
Ovid

Petronius

Plato

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

Alexander Pope

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

Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Adam Smith

Sophocles

Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Ronald Syme

wikipedia
Tacitus

Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thucydides

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

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Jhonen Vasquez

SLG signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Jean François Marie Arouet de. VOLTAIRE

Simone Weil

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienGrinnell David

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
C. Leonard Woolley

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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