Table of Contents

Preface Principal Abbreviations Used I The Iliad II The Odyssey: Hesiod: Early Lyric III Pollution and Purification: Herodotus IV Presocratic Thinkers: Aeschlus V Sophocles VI The Sophists: Thucydides: Euripides VII Conclusions Notes Glossary Addenda Index of Modern Authors General Index

About the Author

Sir Peter Hugh Jefferd Lloyd-Jones FBA (21 September 1922 - 5 October 2009) was a British classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.