xviii INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION
This book could not have been composed without exposure to the recent
work of a large number of scholars. We single out two prolifi c and infl uential
writers: Fergus Millar, whose work over a wide range of subjects and
historical periods is of singular importance; and Moses Finley, inspirational
author, teacher and adviser of the young, to whose memory this book
is dedicated. Substantial parts of the book were read and improved in
earlier draft by Keith Hopkins, Dominic Rathbone and Dick Whittaker, in
addition to Moses Finley and Fergus Millar. Others who have given
advice include Graeme Clarke, Ian DuQuesnay, Janet Fairweather, Richard
Gordon, Richard Hunter, Henry Hurst, Janet Huskinson, Simon Price, Joyce
Reynolds, André T chernia, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and Gregory Woolf.
P.G.
R.S.