Abstract

This new publication, handsomely printed in double–column pages of approximate y Royal Octavo format, is the inaugural volume of another series sponsored by the Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure, New York. In it Father Brady, at present a member of the prestigious Franciscan editorial group of Quaracchi, offers the evident pedagogical fruit of many years’ lecturing. A masterful work of scholarly compression, easily read, slowly digestible and always thought–provoking, it provides the undergraduate student with an admirable introduction to the great originators and main lines of Greek thinking, with a useful knowledge of current historiography and a serviceable base for personal research.