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Modern Writers 18th-21st Century Authors

Modern writers about ancient history or mythology. Includes 18th-21st Century writers of historical fiction covering antiquity through Dark Age Britain.
  1. Albert Noyer (2)
  2. David Wishart (2)
  3. Edith Hamilton (1)
  4. Lindsey Davis (13)
  5. Margaret Doody (6)
  6. Peter Green (2)
  7. Robert Grave (I Claudius) (3)
  8. Robert Harris (2)
  9. Rosemary Rowe (5)
  10. Rosemary Sutcliff (5)
  11. Scullard, H.H. (1)
  12. Steven Pressfield (4)
  13. Steven Saylor (15)

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.

Macaulay's Virginia Lay

Read Macaulay's 19th century narrative poem on the ancient Roman plebeian woman Virginia.

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