Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims examines the availability, circulation, and uses of classical knowledge in the earliest period of the settlement of New England, demonstrating the surprising awareness of Greek and Roman culture by the socially humble "Pilgrims" of Plymouth Plantation.

David A. Lupher, Ph.D. (1970), Stanford University, is Professor of Classics Emeritus, University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America (University of Michigan Press, 2003).