The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku

Haris Vlavianos is a Greek poet, translator, and scholar. Educated at the University of Bristol and at Oxford, he is Professor of History, Political Theory, and History of Ideas at the American College of Greece, and editor of the literary journal Poetics. He is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry and essays, and has translated T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Anne Carson, and William Blake into Greek.

Peter Mackridge is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor at King's College London. A leading authority on Greek language and literature, he is the author of The Modern Greek Language and Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976 (both OUP). He has introduced and translated C. P. Cavafy for Oxford World's Classics and rendered into English major works by Vizyenos, Papadiamandis, Tachtsis, and others--bringing scholarly precision and lyrical ease to every translation.