continued from front flap.  Jacket design by John E. Johnscn Jr. 
Joyce's books before Finnegans Wake are replete with Latin, and even the
reader not yet ready to plunge into the darkness of the Wake will find both
handy and illuminating the complete glossing of the Latin and Greek quotations
and classical references throughout Joyce's other works. About an eighth
of the Classical Lexicon consists of glosses for the earlier books. 
In addition, three appendixes and a set of Supplementary Notes at the back
of the volume contain no fewer than 116 brief explanatory essays expanding
details of classical language, history, and culture which cannot be covered
adequately in the main body of word-by-word glosses. 
The dedicated Wake scholars should reap a rich harvest from this Classical
Lexicon, and the nonclassically-trained reader of Joyce will find the book
an invaluable companion, not only on forays into Finnegans Wake, but in reading
all of Joyce's works. 
BRENDAN 0 HEHIR, Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley,
is the author of Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham; Expans'd
Hieroglyphicks: A Study of Sir John Denham's Coopers Hill, with a Critical
Edition of the Poem; and A Gaelic Lexicon for Finnegans Wake. 
JOHN M. DILLON, who received a classicallyorientated Irish schooling not
dissimilar to that of Joyce's, is Associate Professor of Classics at the
University of California, Berkeley.