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• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Editors’ introduction
• 1 Introductions
• Greek dialects
• Literacy
• Metre, music, genre
• The Olympic and other games
• Patrons and authors
• Religion and mythology
• Rhetoric and education
• The sexes and sexuality
• Slavery
• The symposium
• Texts and fragments
• War
• 2 Homer
• The Homeric Poems
• Storytelling
• Gods and Mortals
• Homeric Values
• 3 From Homer to tragedy
• Archaic Greece: The Rise of the Polis
• Early Greek Poetry: Hesiod
• Early Greek Poetry: Elegy, Iambus and Lyric
• 4 Interlude: Greek History in the Classical Period
• Up to the end of the Peloponnesian War
• From the end of the Peloponnesian War to the death of Alexander
• 5 The drama of classical Athens
• The Athenian Democracy and the Dramatic Festivals
• Tragedy
• Aristophanic Comedy
• Middle and New Comedy
• 6 Historical writing in the classical era
• Herodotus
• Thucydides
• Xenophon
• Later Greek Historiography
• 7 Rhetorical and philosophical writing
• Law Courts, Rhetoric, The Sophists in Classical Athens
• Classical Oratory
• Early Greek Philosophy
• Plato and Aristotle
• 8 Alexandria and beyond
• Alexandria, Greece and Rome
• Hellenistic Literature
• 9 The early republic
• The Early Republic: An Historical Introduction
• Early Latin Poetry
• Roman Comic Drama
• 10 The late republic
• The Late Republic: An Historical Introduction
• Cicero
• Caesar
• Sallust
• Lucretius: The Poem and the World
• Catullus: The Poetry of Pleasure and the Pleasure of Poetry
• Virgil: Eclogues and Georgics
• Horace: The Early Poetry
• 11 The Augustan age
• The Augustan Age: An Historical Introduction
• Livy
• Virgil: The Aeneid
• Horace: The Later Poetry
• Love Elegy
• Ovid
• 12 The early empire
• The Early Empire: An Historical Introduction
• Seneca (c. 4–65)
• Persius, Martial and Juvenal
• Lucan, Statius and Others
• Tacitus
• Pliny the Younger
• Suetonius
• 13 Greece and Rome come together: later literature
• Later Antiquity: an Historical Introduction
• Later Literature: a Brief Introduction
• The Latin Novel: Petronius and Apuleius
• The Greek Novel
• The Revival of Greek Prose Literature
• Latin Prose Literature of the Later Empire
• Later Greek and Latin Poetry
• Classicism and Christianity: Prose and Verse
• Reception: A Few Words
• Glossary
• Maps
• Chronology
• Bibliography
• Index