Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He has worked and published extensively on Classical Greek historiography and biography. Among his numerous publications are Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (2000) and Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies (2002). Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London. She has written extensively on Roman love poetry (collected in The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations, 2002), on Julius Caesar (Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, 2007, and Caesar in the USA, 2012), and on ancient Rome in cinema (Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History, 1997).

• Introduction ; 1. Homer ; 2. Sappho ; 3. Herodotus ; 4. Euripides ; 5. Thucydides ; 6. Plato ; 7. Caesar ; 8. Cicero ; 9. Virgil ; 10. Horace ; 11. Juvenal ; 12. Tacitus ; Epilogue ; Index

Elegant and easy to read.

Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He has worked and published extensively on Classical Greek historiography and biography. Among his numerous publications are Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (2000) and Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies (2002). Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London. She has written extensively on Roman love poetry (collected in The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations, 2002), on Julius Caesar (Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, 2007, and Caesar in the USA, 2012), and on ancient Rome in cinema (Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History, 1997).

• Introduction ; 1. Homer ; 2. Sappho ; 3. Herodotus ; 4. Euripides ; 5. Thucydides ; 6. Plato ; 7. Caesar ; 8. Cicero ; 9. Virgil ; 10. Horace ; 11. Juvenal ; 12. Tacitus ; Epilogue ; Index

Elegant and easy to read.

Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He has worked and published extensively on Classical Greek historiography and biography. Among his numerous publications are Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (2000) and Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies (2002). Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London. She has written extensively on Roman love poetry (collected in The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations, 2002), on Julius Caesar (Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, 2007, and Caesar in the USA, 2012), and on ancient Rome in cinema (Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History, 1997).

• Introduction ; 1. Homer ; 2. Sappho ; 3. Herodotus ; 4. Euripides ; 5. Thucydides ; 6. Plato ; 7. Caesar ; 8. Cicero ; 9. Virgil ; 10. Horace ; 11. Juvenal ; 12. Tacitus ; Epilogue ; Index

Elegant and easy to read.