
Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome
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- 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
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