Ben Edwin Perry

Ben Edwin Perry (1892–1968) was an American professor of classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1924 to 1960. He held Guggenheim Fellowships in the years 1930–1931 and 1954–1955.

His archives are at University of Illinois.

Works Studies in the Text History of the Life and Fables of Aesop, Haverford, Pennsylvania, American Philological Association, 1936 Aesopica, New York, Arno Press, 1980, The Ancient Romances: A Literary-Historical Account of Their Origins, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967.