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Amalasuntha
Amalasuintha (495 – 30 April 535) was a ruler of the Ostrogothic Kingdom from 526 to 535. Initially serving as regent for her son Athalaric, she became queen regnant after his premature death. Highly educated, Amalasuintha was praised by both Cassiodorus and Procopius for her wisdom and her ability to speak three languages (Greek, Gothic, and Latin). Her status as an independent female monarch, and obvious affinity for Roman culture, caused discontent among the Gothic nobles in her court, and she was deposed and killed after six months of sole rule. Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I used her d

Erich Segal
American writer (1937-2010)
Richard Bentley
English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1662–1742)
Pieter Burman the Elder
Dutch classical scholar (1668-1741)
Edmond Faral
French academic, Administrator of the College de France (1882–1958)
Charles Anthon
American classical scholar and educator (1797–1867)
Tom Harpur
Canadian author, broadcaster, columnist and theologian (1929-2017)
Arnold Drakenborch
Dutch classical scholar (1684-1748)
Tenney Frank
American historian (1876-1939)
Elaine Fantham
British latinist and classical philologist (1933–2016)
Alfred Gudeman
American-German classical philologist (1862–1942)
John E. B. Mayor
British classical scholar (1825-1910)
Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp
Dutch classical scholar

Roger Mynors
British classical scholar (1903–1989)
Carsten Høeg
Danish classical scholar (1896–1961)
Adrian Hollis
English classical scholar and chess player (1940-2013)
Valery Durov
Russian philologist and teacher
Moses Hadas
American classical philologist (1900–1966)
Clifford Herschel Moore
American classical philologist and religious studies scholar (1866-1931)

Charles Beck
German-born American classical scholar
John Conington
British classical scholar (1825–1869)
Ward W. Briggs
American classical philologist

Denis Feeney
New Zealand classical scholar (born 1955)
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro
British classical scholar (1819-1885)
Shadi Bartsch
American academic
Constantia Grierson
Irish writer
Georg Luck
Swiss-American classical philologist (1926-2013)
Frederick Ahl
Professor of classics and comparative literature
Robert Seymour Conway
British classical scholar and philologist (1864–1933)
Brooks Otis
American classical philologist (1908-1977)