The volume, published to mark Herwig Maehler's 70th birthday, contains 19 of his articles and papers, offering a selection from the research contribution of a Classicist who has explored very diverse areas of the Ancient World, combining them in productive and imaginative ways. The papers reprinted here (some in slightly revised and updated form) concern Homer, Greek, lyric poetry, Attic tragedy, the ancient novel, Hellenistic poetry, Greek palaeography, art and sculpture under the Ptolemies and various other aspects of daily life in Graeco-Roman Egypt. This selection will be of interest not only to Classical scholars but to anyone interested in the culture of Graeco-Roman-Antiquity.