A vibrant and distinctive introduction to 12 of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. A book for anyone interested in the literature that underpins Western civilization, which shows how these figures still address some of our most fundamental concerns and engage our deepest feelings.