The distinguished classicists and archaeologists featured in this volume were all members of the APS, the oldest learned soc. in N. Amer. Their biographical memoirs, selected from the archives of the Society, present a panorama of 20th-cent. discoveries and developments in the study of Antiquity and the personalities behind them. They include: Sir Arthur Evans, Werner Jaeger, Arthur Darby Nock, Lily Ross Taylor, Carl William Blegen, Gisela M. A. Richter, Rhys Carpenter, Richmond Alexander Lattimore, Ronald Syme, Friedrich Solmsen, T. Robert S. Broughton, Russell Meiggs, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Phyllis Pray Bober, Homer Armstrong Thompson, Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, Machteld Johanna Mellink, and Herbert Bloch. Photos.
