Donated by Miriam Weissman. "Here is an eye as sharp as a modern poet's for exact detail and vivid evocation. Here is a verve and courage in the art of living that transcends race and time and the pecularities of cultures. In these fragments we see the Greek at war, on street corners, in petty quarrels, in perfectly human, and all too human, affairs of the heart ..."--University of California Press.