-- Indispensable reference tool for teachers and students

-- Unique, affordable, comprehensive edition

-- Astute and sensitive analysis

-- Unsurpassed in scholarship and usefulness

-- Extensive bibliography by Professor E. Courtney

-- Includes, in addition to the pagan authors, a representative selection of Christian writers

A brief yet comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to Lucian.

Rose's stated intention for this companion volume to A Handbook of Latin Literature was that it be a work that "covers the whole field, is of moderate length yet not so short as to include the principle authors only..."