Translators of Homer
Samuel Butler
George Chapman (Iliad, 1611; Odyssey, 1614–15) Albert Spaulding Cook William Cowper (complete, 1791) Robert Fagles Robert Fitzgerald Martin Hammond Judith Kazantzis Andrew Lang and Samuel Henry Butcher (complete, in prose, 1879) Richmond Lattimore T. E. Lawrence Stanley Lombardo George Herbert Palmer Alexander Pope (Iliad, 1715–1720; Odyssey, 1725-6) E. V. Rieu W.H.D. Rouse Emily Wilson (Odyssey, 2017)
Translators of Herodotus' The Histories
Henry Francis Cary
A. D. Godley
David Grene
G. C. Macaulay
Enoch Powell
George Rawlinson
Aubrey de Sélincourt
Robin Waterfield
Translators of Sophocles
George Adams
Robert Bagg
Theodore Alois Buckley
Kelly Cherry
Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Peter Constantine
John Dryden
Robert Fagles
Ruth Fainlight
Thomas Francklin
George Garrett
David Grene
Richmond Lattimore
Peter Meineck
Robert Potter
Paul Roche
Thomas Sheridan
David R. Slavitt
Isaac William Stuart (1809–1861) Lewis Theobald (1688–1744) Paul Woodruff Theodore Dwight Woolsey Eduard Wunder
Translators of Thucydides
Walter Blanco
Richard Crawley
Thomas Hobbes
Benjamin Jowett
William Smith
Rex Warner
Translators of Plutarch
Arthur Hugh Clough – revised Dryden's version in the nineteenth century
John Dryden and others – Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
Philemon Holland – Plutarch's Moralia (1603) Sir Thomas North – translated Plutarch's Parallel Lives via the French of Jacques Amyot. This was the version Shakespeare used as a source for his Roman plays. Rex Warner
Translators of Lucretius
NB: His only work was De rerum natura.
Thomas Creech (complete version, 1682) John Dryden (selected passages) William Ellery Leonard (complete version, 1916) Lucy Hutchinson
Translators of Virgil
Frederick Ahl
Cecil Day-Lewis (complete works) Patrick Dickinson Gavin Douglas (the Aeneid into Scots) John Dryden (complete works) Robert Fagles Robert Fitzgerald Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (two books of the Aeneid into blank verse) Rolfe Humphries W. F. Jackson Knight Stanley Lombardo Allen Mandelbaum Clyde Pharr C. H. Sisson
Translators of the Sangam literature
A. Dakshinamurthy
Kausalya Hart
George L. Hart
Hank Heifetz
P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri – translated the Tolkappiyam
Vaidehi Herbert
Translators of Ovid's Metamorphoses
John Dryden
Arthur Golding
Horace Gregory
Rolfe Humphries
Allen Mandelbaum
Charles Martin
George Sandys
David R. Slavitt
Translators of Lucan
Robert Graves (prose version) Christopher Marlowe – translated Book One of Lucan's Bellum Civile Nicholas Rowe – produced a complete translation (1718)
Translators of Juvenal
John Dryden (Satires 1,3,6,10 and 16) Peter Green (The 16 Satires) Robert Lowell (Satire 10)
Translators of Martial
Peter Porter
Translators of the Tirukkural
V. V. S. Aiyar
K. M. Balasubramaniam
A. Chakravarti
S. N. Srirama Desikan – also a translator of the work into Sanskrit
S. M. Diaz
V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar
William Henry Drew
Francis Whyte Ellis
Charles E. Gover
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
Nathaniel Edward Kindersley
John Lazarus
S. M. Michael
George Uglow Pope
Herbert Arthur Popley
Edward Jewitt Robinson
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
P. S. Sundaram
G. Vanmikanathan
Emmons E. White
Translators of other famous Classical authors
Willis Barnstone
Robert Graves – translated Apuleius and Suetonius
Thomas Heath – translator of works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse Philemon Holland – translations of Livy (1600), Pliny the Elder (1601), Suetonius (1606), Ammianus Marcellinus (1613) and Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1632) Stephen MacKenna – translator of Plotinus Robert Potter – translator of Aeschylus and Euripides Betty Radice Ian Scott-Kilvert Gerald Toomer – translator of the Almagest of Ptolemy Phillip Vellacott Rex Warner – translator of Thucydides E. F. Watling