The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome

Media type: E-Book

Title: The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part One: Classics and the Classical World
A. Classics in the Twenty-First Century
Introduction
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
Introduction
12. The Ancient Near East
13. Iron Age Europe
14. Regions of Antiquity
C. Periods
Introduction
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
Introduction
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
Introduction
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
Introduction
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

Contributor: Bispham, Edward [Author]; Ando, Clifford [Contributor]; Bispham, Edward [Contributor]; Blanshard, Alastair [Contributor]; Bligh, Lisa [Contributor]; Boiy, Tom [Contributor]; Brodersen, Kai [Contributor]; Burton, Philip [Contributor]; Cheesman, Clive [Contributor]; Cooley, Alison E. [Contributor]; Corcoran, Simon [Contributor]; Coulston, Jon [Contributor]; Creese, David [Contributor]; Dixon, Helen [Contributor]; D’Angour, Armand [Contributor]; Gibson, Bruce [Contributor]; Golden, Mark [Contributor]; Gordon, Richard [Contributor]; Greenwood, Emily [Contributor]; Hardwick, Lorna [Contributor]; Harrison, Thomas [Author]; Harrison, Thomas [Contributor]; Haubold, Johannes [Contributor]; Hekster, Olivier [Contributor]; Henig, Martin [Contributor]; Hill, J. D. [Contributor]; Konstan, David [Contributor]; König, Alice [Contributor]; König, Jason [Contributor]; Lemos, Irene S. [Contributor]; Lim, Richard [Contributor]; Ling, Roger [Contributor]; Mayer, Roland [Contributor]; McGing, Brian [Contributor]; Meadows, Andrew [Contributor]; Michelakis, Pantelis [Contributor]; Newby, Zahra [Contributor]; Nutton, Vivian [Contributor]; Oliver, Graham [Contributor]; Osborne, Catherine [Contributor]; Osborne, Robin [Contributor]; Parisinou, Eva [Contributor]; Parker, Anthony [Contributor]; Penney, J. H. W. [Contributor]; Pobjoy, Mark [Contributor]; Purcell, Nicholas [Contributor]; Rihll, T. E. [Contributor]; Ruffell, Ian [Contributor]; Russell, Donald [Contributor]; Salway, Benet [Contributor]; Sharrock, Alison [Contributor]; Sparkes, Brian A. [Contributor]; Sparkes, Brian [Author]; Stears, Karen E. [Contributor]; Stewart, Peter [Contributor]; Stray, Christopher [Contributor]; Tomlinson, Richard [Contributor]; Trapp, Michael [Contributor]; Whitley, James [Contributor]; Williams, Jonathan [Contributor]

Published: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (616 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780748627141

ISBN: 9780748627141

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Keywords: Civilisation ancienne ; Civilization, Classical ; Classics & Ancient History ; HISTORY / Ancient / Greece

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Footnote: In English

Description: The Edinburgh Companion is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its approach, it demonstrates the multifaceted nature of classical civilisation and enables readers to gain guidance in drawing together the perspectives and methods of different disciplines, from philosophy to history, from poetry to archaeology, from art history to numismatics, and many more.Key features*written by experts in the field*contains basic and essential information clearly and concisely presented*gives an up-to-date overview of the classical world *guides readers to sources of current reference and further reading material*over 100 illustrations, maps and plans

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