1 Univ. of Texas Press, 1981.

2 London and New York, 1985.

3 See, for example, the earlier literature cited by B. Ginsberg and M. Sheffer, Politics by Other Means: The Declining Importance of Elections in America (New York 1990).

4 John Naisbitt, Megatrends: Ten Directions Transforming Our Lives (New York 1982) 159-88.

5 From Alexander to Actium: The Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (Berkeley 1990).

6 Geschichte der römischen Literatur I and II (Francke Verlag, Bern 1992), superior in many ways to the mishmash prevailing in the Cambridge History of Classical Literature, esp. vol. 2.