H.J. Rose, Emeritus Professor of Greek in the United College of St Salvator and St Leonard, St Andrews, sometime Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford; Associate-Professor of Classics, McGill University, Montreal and Professor of Latin, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

• 1. People and Language: Writing 2. Homer and the Ancient Epic 3. Hesiod and the Hesiodic Schools 4. Personal Poetry: Elegiacs, Iambics, Solo Lyrics 5. Choral Lyric: Terpandros-Bakchylides 6. Athens and the Drama 7. Euripides and the Minor Tragedians 8. Comedy 9. Classical Prose 10. Hellenistic Poetry 11. Philosophy, rhetoric and History 12. Science, scholarship, Criticism 13. Greek Literature in the Empire; Addenda; Bibliography; Index