Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-415) and index.

The Classical Greek Reader: New Encounters with Ancient Greece marks an exciting departure from the traditional anthology approach to Greek literature and thought. By focusing not only on the "big names" but also on the less-familiar voices - the women, doctors, storytellers, herbalists, and romance writers - we are offered a glimpse of ancient Greece as we have rarely seen it. The book provides the reader with first-hand access to literary, artistic, social, political.

Religious, scientific, and philosophical texts that shaped Greek thinking, from the Homeric epic's canonization of the earliest myths and war stories through the installation of Greek values throughout the known world by Alexander to the last remaining vestiges of Greek thought in the Roman era. An introduction precedes each selection, identifying the author and providing information that allows modern readers to consider these ancient texts in a new light.

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