This is a work vast in scale, soaring in its scholarly ambition,
and magnificent . . . in its achievement. The author's command of
the primary sources is staggering in breadth and depth, deftly
orchestrated and rich with insight. . . . Deploying an avalanche of
evidence. . . Rahe shows how alien the modern project, in all its
diverse versions, was to the classics as well as the Bible.--Thomas
L. Pangle,
Political Theory