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Richard Minadeo: The Lyre of Science: Form and Meaning in Lucretius' De Rerum Nature . Pp. 174. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969. Cloth, $8.50.

A GROUP of Professor Vourveris's pupils has united to promote the publication of the veteran Platonist's scripta minora in celebration of his fiftieth year in secondary and higher education and the tenth year of the Greek Humanist Society, of which he is president. The pieces, reprinted from periodicals and the proceedings of international congresses, are divided into two groups: twelve pieces chiefly on Plato, with special attention to the Laws, and sixteen pieces on problems of Greek culture and education today. Among these a prominent theme is that of Humanism and Christianity; Vourveris deprecates the suspicion of or hostility to humanism manifested by some western theologians and pleads, with citation especially of St. Basil the Great, for a synthesis. This commands sympathy; but it would seem that there is some semantic difference between his Platonic anthropismos and the science-based humanism familiar in the west.