Tucídides. Història de la Guerra del Peloponnès. Català i grec

Manuel Balasch i Recort (1928-2009), classical philologist, translator, and poet. Balasch i Recort studied Classical Philology in Barcelona, and received a Ph.D. in Munich with a thesis on Juvenal. He taught Greek at the secondary and university levels and contributed extensively to the Fundació Bernat Metge, translating works by Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Herodotus, and Plato, among others. His Catalan verse translation of Homer's Iliad (1971) received several awards. He also translated modern authors such as Rilke and contributed to the Catalan Bible. As a poet, he published several volumes and was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi in 1991. CAT

Jaume Berenguer i Amenós (1915-1974), classical philologist, teacher, and translator. Berenguer i Amenós earned his degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Barcelona in 1940. He served as a Greek language teacher at the Instituto Alfonso X el Sabio in Murcia (from 1941) and, from 1943, as director of the Instituto Verdaguer in Barcelona. Between 1962 and 1969, Berenguer i Amenós also taught Greek language and literature at both the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He published a widely used Greek Grammar (Gramática griega, 1942) and, as a translator, produced Spanish and Catalan versions of classical works by, among others, Thucydides, Herodotus, Plato, Xenophon, and Homer.