In this brilliant book you will share this joy as you dine and talk with Socrates, hunt with Xenophon, Listen to the orations of Pericles and join the audience at performances of the great tragedies, and the comedies of Aristophanes. You will travel with Herodotus the world's first sight-seer, and learn of war and suffering from Thucydides. And most important' you will understand the Greeks' greatest achievement the development of that perfect balance between spirit and mind which holds a vital meaning for the world today.