Publisher, Naxos AudioBooks (November 2005)

This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture – from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. Critic Edith Hall writes: 'Statues and slavery, temples and tragedies, museum, marbles and mythology – this provocative guide to the Classics demystifies its varied subject-matter while seducing the reader with the obvious enthusiasm and pleasure which mark its writing.'

About the Narrator: Tim Bentinck trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where he won the Carleton Hobbs radio award, subsequently joining the BBC Radio Rep. His acting career has a solid base as a successful voice-over artist, together with regional, fringe and West End theatre, and forays into TV stardom – Tom Lacey in By the Sword Divided, Nigel Barrington in Square Deal, Steve Nicholson in Made in Heaven and Wng Cmdr Raikes in Strike Force. Episodes of Casualty and The Bill and Chris Barrie's business manager, Mark Fitzherbert, in the sitcom Prince Among Men, the U-boat commander in Enigma, the voice of Chow Yung Fat in the English version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the voice of James Bond in the computer game of The World is Not Enough. He has also read the parts of Francisco and the Boatman in Naxos Audiobooks' The Tempest.