Gregory Nagy is an American professor of Classics at Harvard University,specializing in Homer and archaic Greek poetry. Nagy is known for extending Milman Parry and Albert Lord's theories about the oral composition-in-performance of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Frederick M. Ahl is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University. He is known for his work in Greek and Roman epic and drama,and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome,as well as for translations of tragedy and Latin epic.
Geoffrey Stephen Kirk,was a British classicist who served as the 35th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. He published widely on pre-Socratic philosophy and the work of the Greek poet Homer,culminating in a six-volume philological commentary on the Iliad published between 1985 and 1993.
Monika Fludernik,a native Austrian,is professor of English literature and culture at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg,Germany.
Hellenic historiography involves efforts made by Greeks to track and record historical events. By the 5th century BC,it became an integral part of ancient Greek literature and held a prestigious place in later Roman historiography and Byzantine literature.
Géza Alföldy was a Hungarian historian of ancient history.
Hermann Ferdinand Fränkel was a German American classical scholar. He served as professor of Ancient Greek philology at Stanford University until 1953.
Glenn Warren Most is an American classicist and comparatist originating from the US,but also working in Germany and Italy.
Elizabeth Hume Minchin is an Australian classicist and former professor of classics at the Australian National University (ANU). Until 2014 she was one of the two editors of Antichthon,the journal of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.
Hans-Joachim Gehrke,in full Hans-Joachim Günter Adolf Gehrke,is a German historian of ancient and classical antiquity. He was president of the German Archaeological Institute from 2008 to 2011.
Wolfgang Schadewaldt was a German classical philologist working mostly in the field of Greek philology and a translator. He also was a professor of University of Tübingen and University of Freiburg.
Christopher B. Krebs is the Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies,Professor of Classics,and,by courtesy,of German Studies and Comparative Literature Stanford University. Krebs' principal research interests are Greek and Roman Historiography,Latin Lexicography and the Classical tradition.
Helene P. Foley is an American classical scholar. She is Professor of Classical Studies at Barnard College,Columbia University and a member of the Institute for Research on Women,Gender and Sexuality at Columbia. She specialises in ancient Greek literature,women and gender in antiquity,and the reception of classical drama.
Froma I. Zeitlin is an American Classics scholar. She specializes in ancient Greek literature,with particular interests in epic,drama and prose fiction,along with work in gender criticism,and the relationship between art and text in the context of the visual culture of antiquity. Zeitlin's work on establishing new approaches to Greek tragedy has been considered particularly influential.
Angus Morton Bowie is a British academic,Emeritus Lobel fellow in Classics at The Queen's College,University of Oxford. His research interests include Homer,Herodotus,Greek lyric,tragedy and comedy,Virgil,Greek mythology,structuralism,narratology,and other theories of literature.
Barbara Graziosi is an Italian classicist and academic. She is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her interests lie in ancient Greek literature,and the way in which readers make it their own. She has written extensively on the subject of Homeric literature,in particular the Iliad,and more generally on the transition of the Twelve Olympians from antiquity to the Renaissance. Her most recent research was a project entitled 'Living Poets:A New Approach to Ancient Poetry,which was funded by the European Research Council.
Gesine Manuwald is currently a Professor of Latin and Head of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London. She focuses on Roman drama,epic and oratory and the reception of Roman literature,especially Neo-Latin poetry.
Nino Luraghi is an Italian historian of ancient Greece,who holds the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History at Oxford University.
Nancy Worman is Professor of Classics at Barnard and Columbia University. She is an expert on ancient Greek drama and oratory,on ancient literary criticism and literary theory,and on the reception of ancient Greece in the post-classical world.
Douglas Laidlaw Cairns is a British classicist,Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh,and the incumbent Chair of the Classical Association and Edinburgh University Press. He specializes in the study of Greek society,ethics,literature,especially the emotions,and the ways in which these are reflected in Greek epic,tragedy,and lyric poetry.
