THe noted author and scholar presents a guide to the pophets of the Old Testament for the modern reader.

Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced byEdith Hamilton.

The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of distant and forgotten events, but a blueprint of what may happen again.

"A great lady with a disciplined and noble mind and an unquenchable love of good literature. In this volume, we can still hear that calm but not passionless voice explaining the grandeurs and difficulties of some of her favorite books and communicating her appreciation of them to us." --Gilbert Highet