"[This] is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underlies much of Western culture. Christopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, [Julius] Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal, Tacitus, and Lucian."--Book jacket.