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List of Significant Scholars

Nearly four years ago I compiled this list, though the reasons are beyond me. I’m not sure why I called it the ‘List of Significant Scholars.’ I have a vague sense that I was thinking of scholars whose work was either personally important to me, or else a major figure in terms of published work in an area with broad appeal. Looking over it now there are many omissions.

At any rate, I’m only posting this as a trial of a Google Docs feature, which allows you to publish documents on the web. It would be fun, though, to compile a list like this and pit scholars against one another in brackets. Maybe we can set that up in a few months and have our own March Madness to see who stands in the end as the most significant  scholar in Classics (unscientifical as it may be). So without further ado, my ‘List of Significant Scholars’, compiled for some reason in February, 2007:

W.S. Anderson

Roger S. Bagnall
Alessandro Barchiesi
Charles Rowan Beye
Peter Bing
Deborah Boedecker
G.W. Bowersock
Luc Brisson
Peter Brown
P.A. Brunt
Walter Burkert
Claude Calame
Alan Cameron
Paul Cartledge
Wendell Clausen
James Clauss
Diskin Clay
Gian Biaggio Conte
Edward Courtney
A.M. Dale
Marcel Detienne
James Diggle
E.R. Dodds
K.J. Dover
Lowell Edmunds
Marco Fantuzzi
Christopher Faraone
Bruce W. Frier
Julia Haig Gaisser
Karl Galinsky
Bruno Gentili
Anthony Grafton
Erich S. Gruen
N.G.L. Hammond
Victor Davis Hanson
Heath, Malcolm
Simon Hornblower
Thomas K. Hubbard
Richard Hunter
Richard Janko
Hugh Lloyd Jones
Donald Kagan
Craig W. Kallendorf
Bernard M.W. Knox
Barbara Levick
Georg Luck
R.O.A.M. Lyne
Fergus Millar
Arnaldo Momigliano
Glenn W. Most
Oswyn Murray
Gregory Nagy
R.G.M. Nisbet
Dirk Obbink
Robin Osborne
Martin Ostwald
D.L. Page
L.P.E. Parker
Michael C.J. Putnam
Kurt Raaflaub
William H. Race
Claudia Rapp
Ralph M. Rosen
Niall Rudd
Charles Segal
D.R. Shackleton Bailey
Anthony Snodgrass
Antony Spawforth
Ronald Syme
Oliver Taplin
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Paul Veyne
Gregory Vlastos
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
F.W. Walbank
T.B.L. Webster
David West
M.L. West
N.G. Wilson
John Winkler
T.P. Wiseman
Graham Zanker
James E.G. Zetzel

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  1. What a dangerous thing! What then will the Classics Majors do when they need not guess these things over the course of several years? Learn their participles?

    • Housman is by far my favorite classical scholar. I don’t know why he wasn’t on the list. He was probably too obvious. There are some other choices that I myself find puzzling.

      But rest assured, March Madness of Classical Badness is coming! (And Housman will be there.)

  3. Missing a few, IMHO. Among them Page duBois, Simon Goldhill, Mary Beard, Helen Morales and James Porter. The bracket idea sounds cool, though. How would you decide who advances?

    • There are loads of names missing, but I was just trying to test using Google Docs to post to the blog as an alternate platform for certain kinds of material. This odd, old document seemed innocuous enough.

      We’re hashing out the details of the bracket (which is just for fun, obviously), but we’ll likely set up some kind of a vote.

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