New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three essays, originally delivered as lectures, which stress "the relevance of the ancient Greeks (the 'dead white males' of the title) to the modern world.. . While acknowledging the inferior status of women in ancient Greek society, he argues that women were a formidable presence in the household, and he finds in Greek epics, poetry and drama a wealth of assertive, active females. Knox portrays the Sophists, who taught rhetoric and poetry, as 'the first professors of the humanities'." (Publishers Weekly) Notes on sources, index. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-393034925.