TOM HOLLAND gained the top degree at Cambridge before earning his Ph.D. at Oxford. An accomplished radio personality in Britain, he has written a highly acclaimed series of adaptations for Radio 4 of Herodotus's "Histories" and Virgil's "Aeneid," to be followed by Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," and is the author of the novels "The Bone Hunter," "Slave of My Thirst," and "Lord of the Dead,"