Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome
Published on 24. July 2006
617 pages
978-0-7486-2714-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Edinburgh Companion is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its approach, it demonstrates the multifaceted nature of classical civilisation and enables readers to gain guidance in drawing together the perspectives and methods of different disciplines, from philosophy to history, from poetry to archaeology, from art history to numismatics, and many more.Key features*written by experts in the field*contains basic and essential information clearly and concisely presented*gives an up-to-date overview of the classical world *guides readers to sources of current reference and further reading material*over 100 illustrations, maps and plans
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Content
- COVER
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Part One: Classics and the Classical World A. Classics in the Twenty-First Century
- 1. The History of the Discipline
- 2. History
- 3. Archaeology
- 4. Religion
- 5. Economy
- 6. Gender
- 7. Philology and Linguistics
- 8. Literature
- 9. Philosophy
- 10. Art History and Aesthetics
- 11. Classical Legacies
- B. The Regions of the Ancient World
- 12. The Ancient Near East
- 13. Iron Age Europe
- 14. Regions of Antiquity
- C. Periods
- 15. The 'Dark Age' of Greece
- 16. Archaic and Classical Greece
- 17. The Hellenistic World
- 18. The Roman Republic
- 19. The Roman Empire
- 20. Late Antiquity
- Part Two: Material Culture
- 21. Landscape
- 22. Marine Archaeology
- 23. Sites and Features
- 24. Buildings and Architecture
- 25. Coinage
- 26. Sculpture
- 27. Painting, Stucco and Mosaic
- 28. Pottery and Metalwork
- 29. Gems, Jewellery and Glass
- 30. Dress and Textiles
- 31. Arms and Armour
- 32. Papyri
- 33. Manuscripts
- 34. Inscriptions
- Part Three: Texts and Genres
- 35. Greek Epic
- 36. Roman Epic
- 37. Greek Tragedy
- 38. Roman Tragedy
- 39. Greek Comedy
- 40. Roman Comedy
- 41. Greek Lyric Verse: Melic, Elegiac and Iambic
- 42. Latin Poetry other than Epic and Drama
- 43. The Novel
- 44. Letters
- 45. Rhetoric
- 46. Literary Criticism
- 47. Grammar and Linguistics
- 48. Philosophy
- 49. Greek Historiography
- 50. Roman Historiography
- 51. Geography and Ethnography
- 52. Mythology
- 53. Christian Literature
- 54. Science and Mathematics
- 55. Music
- 56. Medicine
- 57. Greek Legal Texts
- 58. Latin Legal Texts
- 59. Technical Writing
- Part Four: Essential Information and Systems of Reference
- 60. Politics
- 61. Names and Naming Systems
- 62. Measures, Weights and Money
- 63. Writing Systems
- 64. The Ancient Calendar
- 65. Metre
- 66. Time-charts
- 67. Maps
- 68. Glossary of Ancient and Modern Terms
- 69. Resources
- 70. Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Index
