Williams's book questions this picture of history and posits that we are not very different from the Greeks in our conceptions of ethical life.

Attacks the critical practice of interpreting ancient Greek literature in terms of modern ideas, using the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Pindar, Plato, Thucydides and Shakespeare as examples.

Enthralling in its breadth and enhanced by two erudite appendices, this is a book that will be warmly welcomed by historians and interpreters of literature.

This book, developed out of the 1969 Sather lectures at Berkeley, California, confronts a wide range of problems concerning the nature, meaning and functions of myths.

Based on lectures about Greek mythology given in Berkeley in spring 1977 as part of the Sather Lectures series.

Based on lectures about Greek mythology given in Berkeley in spring 1977 as part of the Sather Lectures series.

" Party Politics in the Age of Caesar is a shrewd commentary on this text, designed to clarify the true meaning in Roman political life of such terms as "party" and "faction.