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Modern writers about ancient history or mythology. Includes 18th-21st Century writers of historical fiction covering antiquity through Dark Age Britain.
The Forgotten Legion, by Ben Kane
Review of Ben Kane's The Forgotten Legion.
Robert Fagles
Robert Fagles was a Princeton professor and translator of the epics of Homer and Vergil.
Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan is a somewhat controversial, Greek historian from Yale who wrote an authoritative, but popular tome on the Peloponnesian War.
Paul Cartledge
Paul Cartledge is a classical scholar and authority on ancient Sparta.
Lily Ross Taylor
Lily Ross Taylor was a professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr and the author of books on the politics of ancient Rome.
Tenney Frank
Tenney Frank was an ancient historian who taught at Bryn Mawr and Johns Hopkins.

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