Oswyn Murray is a leading scholar of the ancient world. He is the author of Early Greece, and The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style, and co-editor, with John Boardman and Jasper Griffin of the Oxford History of the Classical World. His works have been translated into many languages.

Both elegant and outspoken ... It has long been one of Murray's priorities to liberate the Republic of of Letters, or at least the Republic of History, from the constraints of national or linguistic boundaries. His new book is part autobiographical memoir, part analysis of how the subject of ancient Greek history has changed since the eighteenth century, and part manifesto for classical history and the study of history more generally ... A masterclass [from] one of the most thoughtful ancient historians in Britain over more than half a century

Oswyn Murray is a leading scholar of the ancient world. He is the author of Early Greece, and The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style, and co-editor, with John Boardman and Jasper Griffin of the Oxford History of the Classical World. His works have been translated into many languages.

Both elegant and outspoken ... It has long been one of Murray's priorities to liberate the Republic of of Letters, or at least the Republic of History, from the constraints of national or linguistic boundaries. His new book is part autobiographical memoir, part analysis of how the subject of ancient Greek history has changed since the eighteenth century, and part manifesto for classical history and the study of history more generally ... A masterclass [from] one of the most thoughtful ancient historians in Britain over more than half a century