'There are sharp insights Literary history succeeds if it sends readers back to the texts: I came away wanting to read Arrian next holidays.' - Anglo Hellenic Review

• Introduction, PART 1 Homer and the Archaic period (eighth to fifth centuries BC): the primacy of Ionia, PART 2 The Classical age and the flowering of Athens (fifth to fourth centuries BC), PART 3 The Hellenistic Period: the age of distinction, PART 4 The Roman Empire: from compromise to mutation, Notes, Bibliography, Index

'There are sharp insights Literary history succeeds if it sends readers back to the texts: I came away wanting to read Arrian next holidays.' - Anglo Hellenic Review

• Introduction, PART 1 Homer and the Archaic period (eighth to fifth centuries BC): the primacy of Ionia, PART 2 The Classical age and the flowering of Athens (fifth to fourth centuries BC), PART 3 The Hellenistic Period: the age of distinction, PART 4 The Roman Empire: from compromise to mutation, Notes, Bibliography, Index