About the Book: Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman
Classics from Homer to Boethius
Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature
for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues?
Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal "Yes!" Even in
the Late Roman Empire Christian readers, like Augustine and Boethius, did just
this. But reading the classics this way requires reading differently than,
perhaps, most people today are used to doing.
This is a book about reading the Greco-Roman classics as Christians--the why,
the how, and to a lesser extent, the when. This exercise, equal parts
intellectual and