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Classic is a book that has survived through the centuries thanks to the fervour of its infinite readers from very diverse times and places. Classics are “unforgettable” texts, reread and translated incessantly, because “they always have something more to say”, or to tell us, as I. Calvin wrote. And each era, each country and language, chooses its authors in a long tradition that begins for us with the Greeks. If the school of an audiovisual society now contests their time, it is personal choice that must respond to this cultural challenge and each reader must take responsibility for having these lively dialogues with the past and its literature and thus build a fascinating and fabulous world beyond the trivial daily spectacle. Carlos García Gual (Palma de Mallorca, 1943), professor of classical Greek for fifty years in a row, first in secondary schools and then in various universities. Over the course of more than half a century he has published more than forty books on a wide variety of subjects, twenty-odd translations and numerous essays and prologues on topics of culture, classical and comparative literature, Greek mythology and philosophy. He has tried to defend and expand knowledge of the Hellenic legacy, attentive to its current echoes and suggestions, and to do so with clear rigor and a personal style. He is a member of the RAE, winner of the National Translation Prize on two occasions and founder and advisor of the Gredos Classical Library, among other merits.