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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Philip Persinger for his long friendship and consistent support for the idea that Greek drama and the dramatic mode in literature profoundly influence every other ancient Greek genre of writing. I also wish to thank Larry and Raquel Goldberg for many years of reading Plato, Euclid, Nietzsche, and Madison together. I owe the opportunity to learn Greek and Latin to Andrew Zimmerman; I also owe to him and his wife, Dao, a focus on what I believe is of the highest value in philosophy, friendship. I would like to thank my friend Michael for many years of thoughtful discussion of some of the more perplexing works we read.

I thank Prof. Nicholas Bloom of Hunter College in New York for helping me get the time and opportunity to write this book. I also owe a great debt to Prof. George Kennedy of UNC-Chapel Hill for his classes and his support of my work over many years and in many different ways. I would like to remember every day the help I received in Plato and Greek tragedy from Prof. Brooks Otis and in Thucydides from Prof. Henry Immerwahr. I wish also to remember the very timely and thoughtful support I received from Prof. Lou Feldman, late of Yeshiva University.

I also wish to thank my loving daughters Maeve and Aoife for their patience, which I used to tell them all the time is a very important virtue. My two editors at Rowman have also had to exercise this virtue, which was not easy I suspect. Their thoughtful and precise comments and criticisms have been invaluable, as were the analyses of an anonymous reviewer.