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...