The Portable Greek Reader W. R. Runyan and his Masters and Doctorate

and his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graudaute School in Santa Barbara

"The pleasant smell of flinty steel

Now it is dying

Even as it guides us across town

Author: Penelope Sky

The Portable Greek Reader W. R. Runyan and his Masters and DoctorateIt is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden's splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy. Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are