This is a study of the character and history of an ancient civilization, and of the pwoplw who created it. Since its first publication as a Pelican, The Greeks has sold over1,400,000 copies.

'The best introduction I have ever read to Ancient Greece. The author’s liveliness of mind and style has enabled him to make a mass of information appetizing and digestible’.
- Raymond Mortimer in the Sunday Times

'Professor Kitto is a model historian _ Iively, accurate, ... never vague... often witty and always full of vigour'.
- The Times, Educational supplement