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• CONTENTS
• FIGURES
• PREFACE
• WHY THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN
• WHY I HAVE WRITTEN THIS BOOK
• HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• REPRODUCTION PERMISSIONS
• PART I THE BASICS
• 1 THE NATURE OF THE FIELD
• WHY DO WE PURSUE RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES?
• TEACHING AND RESEARCH
• THE CHANGING SIGNIFICANCE OF ANTIQUITY
• The Distinctive Position of Greco-Roman Culture
• How the Particular Became Classical
• The Broadening of the Field
• THE VARIOUS NATIONAL TRADITIONS OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
• 2 THE STAGES OF RESEARCH
• CONFRONTING OUR IGNORANCE
• DEFINING THE PROBLEM
• ASSEMBLING A BIBLIOGRAPHY
• READING THE MATERIAL
• FOLLOWING UP REFERENCES
• A CRITICAL APPROACH AND AUTHORITY
• DEDUCTION VS. INDUCTION
• WRITING AND PUBLICATION
• 3 ASSEMBLING A BIBLIOGRAPHY
• WHERE TO START
• BROADER AND MORE FOCUSED
• FOLLOWING FOOTNOTES
• FINDING THE CLASSICAL SOURCES
• YOUR FINAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Encyclopedias
• Bibliographies
• 4 WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES?
• PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
• SOURCE CRITICISM
• THE RELIABILITY OF SOURCES
• WRITING FROM A SINGLE SOURCE
• LITERARY AND DOCUMENTARY SOURCES
• WHAT IS CREDIBLE?
• WHAT FORM CAN TELL US
• COMMENTARIES
• School Commentaries
• Scholarly Commentaries
• Specialized Commentaries
• Ancient Commentaries
• Characteristics of Commentaries
• CONCORDANCES
• FRAGMENTS
• HISTORICAL SOURCES
• BACKGROUND AND SURROUNDING INFORMATION
• 5 BOOK REVIEWS
• READING BOOK REVIEWS
• WRITING BOOK REVIEWS
• Preliminary Material
• Summary
• Discussion
• Judgment
• Matters of Detail
• WHO WRITES REVIEWS?
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Journals Specializing in Book Reviews
• PART II LANGUAGE
• 6 LEXICOGRAPHY
• USING DICTIONARIES
• COMPILING DICTIONARIES
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Dictionaries: Greek
• Dictionaries: Latin
• 7 GRAMMAR
• USING GRAMMAR BOOKS
• WHERE GRAMMAR CAME FROM
• GRAMMATICAL RESEARCH
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Grammars
• 8 LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
• HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
• THE LINGUISTIC REVOLUTION OF THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY
• Semiotics
• Psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Generative Grammar
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Pragmatics
• Applied Linguistics
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Indo-European Linguistics
• Historical Accounts and Comparative Grammars of the Classical Languages
• Developments in Modern Linguistics
• 9 USING CLASSICAL TEXTS
• WHAT DID THE AUTHOR WRITE?
• READING A CRITICAL EDITION
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Classical Texts: Collections
• Text Alone
• Texts with Translation
• Texts with Commentary
• Classical Texts in Translation
• Online Texts
• PART III THE TRADITIONAL FIELDS
• 10 READING AND UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE
• CLASSICS IS ALMOST ENTIRELY LITERATURE
• WHAT BOOK WILL MOST HELP ME UNDERSTAND AN ANCIENT WORK OF LITERATURE?
• LITERARY HISTORY
• INTERTEXTUALITY
• THE AUTHOR, THE TEXT, AND THE READER: THEORETICAL ISSUES
• “Internally Generated” Schools of Literary Theory
• “Externally Generated” Schools of Literary Theory
• THE PLACE OF THEORY AND IDEOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF LITERATURE
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Collections of Fragments
• 11 ORATORY AND RHETORIC
• SPEECHES AND SOCIETY
• THE SCIENCE OF RHETORIC
• The Three Kinds of Speech (Genera, γένη)4
• The Five Parts of Rhetoric (Partes/Opera/Elementa Artis, 5)
• The Parts of a Speech (Partes Orationis, µέρη λóγου)6
• The Status of a Question (Status, στάσις)
• Tropes and Figures of Speech
• RHETORIC IN OTHER GENRES
• RHETORIC IN EDUCATION
• ORATORY AS A SOURCE FOR LAW AND SOCIETY
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• 12 PHILOSOPHY
• THE CONTINUITY OF PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS
• THE PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH AND THE HISTORICAL APPROACH
• DAUGHTER FIELDS
• THE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OF PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS
• THE SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE OF PHILOSOPHY
• THE DECEPTIVE SIMPLICITY OF PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS
• THE SCHOOLS OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
• THE MAJOR SUBJECTS
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Philosophic Fragments and Commentaries
• 13 HISTORY
• THE SPECIAL PLACE OF HISTORY IN CLASSICAL STUDIES
• WHAT IS HISTORY?
• THE SUBJECTS OF HISTORY
• Political History
• Institutional History
• National or Ethnic History and Regional History
• Military History
• Intellectual History
• Literary History
• Social and Economic History
• HISTORY AS FACTS OR HISTORY AS TEXT
• ANCILLARY DISCIPLINES
• Antiquarianism
• Chronology
• Periodization
• Prosopography
• Taxonomy
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Comprehensive Histories
• Chronology, Fasti, and Magistrate and Regnal Lists
• Prosopographies
• Commentaries
• Fragmentary Histories
• PART IV THE PHYSICAL REMAINS
• 14 ARCHAEOLOGY
• WHAT ARCHAEOLOGY IS
• WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR WHEN WE EXCAVATE?
• The Limits of Excavation
• ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS
• ARTIFACTS AND HOW WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM
• THE TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES
• NEWER INTERESTS
• READING ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
• Excavation Reports
• Current Excavations: Journals
• 15 MYCENAEAN STUDIES
• THE DISCOVERY OF THE MYCENAEAN WORLD
• The Buildings, the Treasures and the Romance
• The Texts
• OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS
• When Was the Palace at Knossos Destroyed?
• Linear A
• Synthesizing the Archaeological and the Textual Evidence
• The Absorption of Mycenaean Studies into the Classics
• The Mycenaeans and Their Neighbors
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• 16 NUMISMATICS
• COIN COLLECTING AND NUMISMATICS
• HOW COINS WERE MADE
• IDENTIFYING A COIN
• PUTTING IT IN CONTEXT
• DATING COINS
• METROLOGY AND METALLURGY
• ICONOGRAPHY
• THE ANALYSIS OF GROUPS OF COINS
• READING NUMISMATIC PUBLICATIONS
• COINS AND HISTORY
• COINS AND ART
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Handbooks
• Catalogues
• Bibliography
• PART V THE WRITTEN WORD
• 17 EPIGRAPHY
• THE OLDEST WRITTEN TEXTS
• FORM OF PUBLICATION
• EPIGRAPHICAL SYMBOLS
• LETTER-FORMS
• SQUEEZES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
• RESTORING A TEXT
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Introductions to Epigraphy
• Corpora
• Epigraphical Periodicals
• Ancillae for Restoration of Texts
• Epigraphical Bibliography
• 18 PAPYROLOGY
• THE MEDIA OF WRITING
• THE LANGUAGES OF PAPYRI
• LITERARY AND DOCUMENTARY PAPYRI
• READING PAPYRI AND EVALUATING THEM
• READING A PUBLISHED PAPYRUS
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• 19 PALAEOGRAPHY
• PALAEOGRAPHY AND CODICOLOGY
• VARIETIES OF HANDWRITING
• SHORTHAND AND ABBREVIATION
• THE STUDY OF MANUSCRIPTS AND CODICES
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Introductions to Palaeography
• Palaeographical Photographs
• Bibliographies
• 20 EDITING CLASSICAL TEXTS
• THE EDITOR’S GOAL
• RECENSIO
• EXAMINATIO
• EMENDATIO
• COMMON ERRORS
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Introductions to Textual Criticism
• History of Texts
• PART VI THE CLASSICS AND RELATED DISCIPLINES
• 21 ART
• ART HISTORY
• ART AND LITERATURE; ART AND CULTURE
• ICONOGRAPHY
• ART AND POLITICS
• HIGH ART AND LOW ART
• FORMS OF ART
• ARCHITECTURE
• SCULPTURE
• WALL-PAINTING AND MOSAIC
• POTTERY PAINTING
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Encyclopedias
• 22 MUSIC AND DANCE
• MUSIC AND DANCE IN GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE
• PERFORMANCE OF SONG
• RHYTHM AND MELODY
• MODES, SCALES AND THEORY
• ANCIENT DANCE
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• 23 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
• A NEGLECTED FIELD
• ANCIENT AND MODERN SCIENCE
• MATHEMATICS AND GEOMETRY
• ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY
• PHYSICS
• BIOLOGY
• MEDICINE
• GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
• TECHNOLOGY
• CIVIL ENGINEERING
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Introductions to Individual Fields
• Historical Atlases
• Technology
• 24 ANCIENT RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
• THE STUDY OF RELIGION
• MYTHOLOGY
• WORSHIP AND RITUAL
• STATE RELIGION AND DIVINATION
• MAGIC
• FOREIGN CULTS
• JUDAISM
• CHRISTIANITY
• OUR RELIGION AND THEIRS
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• 25 LAW
• ROMAN LAW AND GREEK LAW
• THINKING LIKE A LAWYER
• THE SPECIALIZED VOCABULARY OF LAW
• THE PROGRESSIVE STABILIZATION AND ARTICULATION OF LAW
• HOW LAW WAS MADE IN ROME
• CORPUS IURIS CIVILIS3
• THE CONTENT OF THE LAW
• GREEK LAW
• THE ABSENCE OF PRECEDENT
• GREEK LAW AND GREEK SOCIETY
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• 26 SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ECONOMICS AND PSYCHOLOGY
• THE CLASSICS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
• SOCIOLOGY
• ANTHROPOLOGY
• ECONOMICS
• PSYCHOLOGY
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• PART VII THE CLASSICS SINCE ANTIQUITY
• 27 THE CLASSICAL TRADITION AND CLASSICAL RECEPTION
• THE CLASSICAL TRADITION AS A SUBJECT OF STUDY
• STUDIES OF THE AFTERLIFE OF A SINGLE AUTHOR OR WORK
• GENRE STUDIES
• STUDIES OF A RECEIVING AUTHOR
• STUDIES OF A RECEIVING PERIOD, PLACE OR GENRE
• RECEPTION STUDIES
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• 28 HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP
• SCHOLARSHIP ABOUT SCHOLARS
• THE CONTROVERSIES THAT HAVE SHAPED CLASSICS
• BIOGRAPHIES OF CLASSICISTS
• HISTORIES OF SCHOLARSHIP
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• Histories of Classical Scholarship
• 29 RECONSTRUCTING THE ANCIENT WORLD
• OPERA AND MODERN DANCE
• GREEK AND LATIN COMPOSITION
• RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
• COMPUTERIZED RECONSTRUCTION
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• 30 TRANSLATION
• THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS
• THE FIRST RULE
• BASIC QUESTIONS
• What Sort of Text Are You Translating?
• For What Purpose Are You Translating?
• For Whom Are You Translating?
• LITERARY TRANSLATION
• THE LITERAL TRANSLATION
• TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION
• SPECIAL PROBLEMS
• MAJOR RESOURCES
• ABBREVIATIONS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• WEBSITES
• BOOKS AND ARTICLES
• INDEX