Professor P.E. Easterling is renowned for combining first-rate scholarship with extraordinary humanitas towards both her colleagues and her students. As regards the latter, in particular, I know one when I see one, for they are invariably encomiastic of her kindness, encouragement, and unfailing support. Appropriately enough, therefore, this book is a tribute by thirteen of her most recent students, which started life as a colloquium in her honor, held at the Institute of Classical Studies in London in March 1999. No thematic or other unity has been attempted: the topics dealt with cover a remarkably wide range, from archaic epic to tragedy to palaeography -- even to cinema. As pointed out both by the editors (p. v) and by Oliver Taplin, who supplied the Introduction (p. 2), this variety nicely reflects the diversity of Prof. Easterling's own interests.