The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present - Hardcoverby Oswyn Murray (Author) How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. "This majestic book by Oswyn Murray has been long and eagerly awaited and its quality and scope exceed expectations." Edith Hall, BBC History Magazine The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries,