Description: The Bibliotheca of Photius is the most important work from Byzantium's most important scholar, containing some four hundred books representing fourteen centuries of Greek literature. For Byzantinists, The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius is a unique resource on Byzantine learning. For classicists, it preserves material that is otherwise lost.
Brief description: Warren T. Treadgold is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies at Saint Louis University.