About the Author

James A. Arieti (BA, Grinnell College, 1969; PhD, Stanford University, 1972) is the Graves H. Thompson Professor Emeritus of Classics at Hampden-Sydney College. His books include The Dating of Longinus (1975), Love Can Be Found (1977), Longinus On the Sublime: Translation and Commentary (1985), Interpreting Plato: The Dialogues as Drama (1991), Discourses on the First Book of Herodotus, The Scientific and the Divine: Conflict and Reconciliation  From Ancient Greece to the Present (2003), Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction (2005), Plato’s Gorgias (2007), Plato’s Protagoras (2010), and Springs of Western Civilization: A Comparative Study of Hebrew and Classical Cultures 2017). He is the author of numerous articles on subjects that include Empedocles, Greek athletics, Herodotus, Homer, Horace, Livy, Machiavelli, Philo, Plato, and the Septuagint.