H. L. Havell

H. L. Havell was an English classical scholar and teacher of the early twentieth century, at one time reader in English at the University of Halle and a former scholar of University College, Oxford. He wrote a series of retellings of classical literature for young readers, including Stories from the Iliad, Stories from the Odyssey, Stories from the Aeneid, Stories from Herodotus and Stories from Greek Tragedy, and a popular survey, Republican Rome.