Designed to fulfill the wishes of both student and scholar, this edition of Leviathan provides a super introduction by Edwin Curley, modernized spelling and punctuation of the text, and the inclusion, together with historical and interpretive notes, of essentially the most vital variants between the English version of 1651 and the Latin version of 1668. A word list of seventeenth-century English terms, and indexes of persons, subjects, and scriptural passages assist in making this essentially the most thoughtfully conceived edition of Leviathan to be had.