A. Kitchen, Journal of Near Eastern Studies “A reliable rendering of the Egyptian text that can be useful to students of Egyptology and provide the layman with delightful reading material.”—Mordechai Gilula, Cultura

    This book, together with On Tyranny and Xenophon's Socratic Discourse (also available from St. Augustine's Press), constitutes the core of Professor Strauss's rediscovery of classical political thought and provides a complete statement about Socrates as well as a thorough and careful interpretation of Xenophon." Relying exclusively on the texts, Professor Strauss analyzes and compares every seemingly casual utterance as well as the more formal statements to recover the true Socrates and to determine the character of political philosophy. He investigates its origins, possibilities, and intention against the non-philosophical background from which it emerged. A valuable guide also to Xenophon's charm, grace, and profundity, this last volume in the monumental trilogy helps to restore the traditional dignity of Xenophon as a wise and masterful writer.

    How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.

    The book includes a strong argument for the fundamental credibility of Thucydides' narrative, background on Corcyraean and Potidaean affairs, a lengthy re-examination of the Athenian decree excluding Megarians from the civic centre of Athens and the ports of the empire, and three chapters on Spartan and Corinthian foreign policy and relations with Athens from earliest times till the outbreak of was in 431 BC. Forty-seven appendices treat questions of detail.

    Discusses natural and embalmed mummies from the frozen mammoths of Siberia to shrunken heads in Ecuador.