The articles in this volume are addressed primarily to the professional Classicist. Some of them, however, are much less technical than others. E. A. Havelock's study of Aristophanes' Clouds deals with a fundamental aspect of Socratic thought; A. T. Cole introduces new distinctions into the conventional picture of Sophistic relativism; A. Parry infers from the Archaeology Thucydides' theory of history; W. Sale applies psychoanalytic concepts closely to a character of Euripides; and G. S. Kirk examines the definition of ‘myth’ in the light of Greek and other myths. All these articles deal with questions that are bound to be of interest to anyone concerned with the history of thought in the Western World; all are comprehensible to those who are not expert in Greek philology, and even to those who do not know Greek.

A middle ground in this respect is occupied by M. McCall's solution to a perplexing problem in Sophocles' Antigone; by H. Lloyd-Jones' reconstruction of the plot and mood of Menander's Samia; by M. Arthur's study of the independent role of the chorus in Euripides' Bacchae; by D. Tompkins' demonstration that Thucydides does after all adjust his style to individual historical characters, by R. Brumbaugh's brief argument that Socrates, as portrayed by Aristophanes, used scientific models, and by D. Claus' interpretation of a key speech in Euripides' Hippolytus. These articles deal with more specific problems than the previous group, and mostly require a knowledge of Greek texts in the original language to be understood.