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.