Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations viii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Introduction 1
7. I The Homeric age
8. 1 The spread of civilisation: the past in the present - from neolithic tribalism to the first cities - the Minoans 14
9. 2 The Greeks: the Mycenaeans- Dark-Age Greece - the Greek language - the Greek alphabet- Bronze-Age society and culture - Mycenaean religion 19
10. 3 Homer and epic poetry: the background - the Iliad - the Odyssey - Hesiod 25
11. II Greece in the fifth century BC
12. 4 From Archaic to early-Classical Greece: Athens - Sparta - the Persian Wars - women, resident foreigners, and slaves - colonisation 45
13. 5 Religion, the arts, education, and books: religious beliefs and practices - architecture - painting - sculpture - music - education, literacy, and books 52
14. 6 Lyric poetry: Pindar and his predecessors: the lyric - Sappho and Anacreon - Pindar 57
15. 7 Sophocles and Athenian drama: tragedy - the three tragedians - Aeschylus - Sophocles - Euripides - Aristophanes and comedy 65
16. 8 Herodotus and Greek history: Greek historians -Herodotus and the Persian Wars- Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War - Xenophon and the Persian Expedition 82
17. 9 Plato and philosophy: the pre-Socratics - Socrates - Plato - Aristotle 100
18. Interchapter: the Hellenistic age
19. Alexander's empire and its successors - language and society - the visual arts - literature - history - philosophy and science - scholarship and libraries 115
20. III Late-Republican and early-Imperial Rome
21. 10 The expansion of Rome: from city-state to superstate - the Latin language - Roman names 123
22. 11 Republic and Empire: conquest abroad, strife at home - politics and society - religion 129
23. 12 Maintaining the state: economics and technology - the Roman army 134
24. 13 The arts: painting, sculpture, and architecture -drama: Plautus, Terence, Seneca -education, books, and libraries 138
25. 14 Cicero: rhetoric and philosophy - the legacy of Greece: rhetoric, philosophy - Cicero - Seneca 144
26. 15 Virgil: from pastoral to epic - Theocritus and pastoral poetry - Virgil - the Eclogues - the Georgics- the Aeneid- Virgil's reputation and influence 154
27. 16 Horace: epigram, lyric, and satire- Catullus -Horace- Juvenal 167
28. 17 Ovid: love poetry and the novel - Ovid - the novel - Longus - Petronius - Apuleius 178
29. 18 Tacitus and Roman history: Roman historians - Caesar and the Gallic War - Sallust - Livy - Tacitus- Plutarch- Suetonius 190
30. Afterword 205
31. Appendix: Classical studies
32. The survival of ancient texts - the transmission of texts - textual scholarship- history and archaeology 206
33. Reference bibliography 210
34. Index and guide to pronunciation 213