primary-source, classic, and new works in the humanities, the arts, and the natural sciences. Taking our
name from the Greek word aletheia or "truth" discovered, uncovered, or unforgotten, our "true" press
hopes, by means of its books and other publications, to foster within and across the disciplines authentic
debate about man and the world in which he finds himself. Put another way, we strive to goad an
appetite for true dialectical inquiry and a penchant for musing over some forgotten verities.
We seek to place our books into the hands of scholars, teachers, students, journalists, poets and
litterateurs, and (as they once were called) common readers. Our books are printed on archive quality
paper with like bindings, are completely reset, and bear new indexes, new introductions, and, where
appropriate, other new scholarly apparatus.
In his Histories, Herotodus records the founding of Dodona, the most ancient of all Greek oracles.
According to tradition, a black dove escaped from Thebes in Egypt and alighted in Greece, at Dodona,
"on an oak tree, and there uttered human speech, declaring that a place of divination from Zeus must be
made there; the people of Dodona understood that the message was divine, and therefore established
the oracular shrine." And thus, in the priestesses of Dodona, who would interpret the rustling leaves of
Zeus's oaks, we encounter perhaps the first of the Sybils, those mysterious, monitory companions of
ancient Western man. Our symbol of Dodona, where classical aletheia first irrupted into speech--and, by
all reports, formed the melodic ground, in later days, of Socratic philosophy and, still later, of the chorus
of theology--is, we feel, an apt symbol for Alethes Press and its mission: to startle a bit the groves of
academe, even to disturb the shade of one's leisure hours; and, above all, to remind us just how rich is
our ancient, yet ever youthful intellectual heritage and to invite its delectation and further cultivation.
We sincerely hope you find our books interesting, perhaps aggravating; in any case, worth the kind of
effort at reading we have put into publishing them.
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