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Christopher S. Mackay

Christopher S. Mackay has always been interested in languages, and it's been downhill since he started teaching himself Latin at the age of 13. He majored in Classics at the University of Michigan, and went on to receive a doctorate in Classical philology at Harvard University. There he studied Greek and Latin language....[more]

Norman Yoffee

Norman Yoffee, CV-1 page (for full cv, see sitemaker.umich.edu/nyoffee) Education: BA, Northwestern University (1966), PhD, Yale University (1973) (also: University of Chicago (summer 1967), University of Munich (1969-70) Honors: D Lit (honoris causa), La Trobe University (Melbourne), 1998 Major Grants: A....[more]

Bill T. Arnold

Russell Ash

Russell Ash is best known as the creator and compiler of Top 10 of Everything (annual, 1989–) and related titles (Hamlyn, UK; Sterling, USA, and in various editions around the world). He has also written numerous books on art (principally 19th-century painters), popular reference (such as his annual Whitaker's World of....[more]

Tracy Barrett

Tracy Barrett is the author of numerous books for young readers, including the award-winning biographical novel, ANNA OFBYZANTIUM (Delacorte, 1999). Her most recent publications are two young-adult novels, DARK OF THE MOON (Harcourt, 2011) and KING OF ITHAKA (Henry Holt, 2010), and the four books in her middle-grade se....[more]

Susan Wise Bauer

Susan's parents taught her at home for most of elementary and middle school, and all of high school; she entered college at seventeen as a Presidential Scholar and National Merit finalist, and finished her B.A. in five semesters with a major in English, a minor in Greek and a summer spent studying twentieth century ....[more]

Graham Campbell - Dunn

Graham Campbell-Dunn was awarded his MA in Classics with First Class Honours by the University of New Zealand and went to Cambridge on a Postgraduate Scholarship. There he studied under the comparativists WS Allen and RG Coleman, and was privileged to be taught by John Chadwick, who worked on Mycenaean Greek. His teach....[more]

Neville Morley is Professor of Ancient Economic History and Historical Theory at the University of Bristol, UK, having worked there since 1995. He has published widely in different areas of ancient history; his latest book, on the Roman Empire and its relation to modern theories of imperialism, will be published by Plu....[more]

Richard Panchyk

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Ricardo A. Scott

Born and raised in Kingston Jamaica and while growing up in the ghettoes of Trench Town created and invented the word- Reggae and with my brethrens such as Junior Braithwaite, and Garth Dennis gave the name -Wailing Wailers to Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer. Bob then formed his group of singers and musicians ....[more]

Aristotle

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher who wrote about physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, dance, philosophy, psychology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, morality, biology, botany, agriculture, and zoology. He was a student of the Classical Greek philosopher Plato and went on to te....[more]

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more]

E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge (Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge) (July 27, 1857 - November 23, 1934) Budge was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England to Mary Ann Budge. His father is unknown. He went to live with his grandmother and aunt in London as a young man. He was interested in languages by the age of ten, but left s....[more]