Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense as possible of how the Greeks themselves thought and wrote about the world. Miller''s skillful introduction places the works in historical context and briefly describes the different metrical forms represented in the selections.

Headnotes to each section highlight the background of the poet whose works follows. Complete with a glossary of names and a select bibliography.