Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. His other books available from California include "Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age" (1990), "Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography" (1991), "The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos" (1993), and "The Greco-Persian Wars" (1996).