- Topic outline of classical studies
Classical studies, or Classics for short, is the earliest branch of the Humanities, and covers the languages, literature, history, art, and other cultural aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world. The field focuses primarily on, but is not limited to, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during classical antiquity, the era spanning from the beginning of the Bronze Age of Ancient Greece in 1000 BCE through the period known as Late Antiquity to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, circa 500 CE. The word classics is also used to refer to the literature of the period.
The following topic outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to classical studies:
Essence of classical studies
: "Main articles: Classical antiquity and Classical studies"
* Ancient Greece
* Ancient Rome
* Ancient Mediterranean
Branches of classical studies
* Culture of Ancient Greece
* Culture of Ancient Rome
* Culture of Ancient Mediterranean
Subdisciplines of classical studies
* Classical archaeology
** Classical art — "see Art in ancient Greece and Roman art"
** Classical architecture — "see Architecture of Ancient Greece and Roman architecture"
** Numismatics
* Classical history — "see also Bronze Age and Classical Antiquity"
** Classical society — "see Ancient Greek society and Roman society
** Classical religion — "see Religion in ancient Greece, Greek mythology, Religion in Ancient Rome, and Roman mythology"
* Classical philology
** Classical language — "see Ancient Greek and Classical Latin"
** Classical literature
*** Classical theatre — "see Theatre of Ancient Greece and Theatre of Ancient Rome"
** Classical Textual criticism
* Classical philosophy — "see Greek philosophy. See also Ancient philosophy."
* Classical science and technology — "see History of science in Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greek technology, and Roman technology"
* Palaeography
History of classical studies
: "Main article: History of the western classics, not to be confused with classical history (see below)"
* Literae Humaniores
General classical studies concepts
* Ancient history
* Literae Humaniores
Classical archaeology
* Late Helladic period
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Greek category was not "Wonders" but "theamata", which translates closer to "must-sees". The list that we know today was compiled in the Middle Ages—by which time many of the sites were no longer in existence:
# Great Pyramid of Giza (the only wonder of the Ancient World still in existence)
# Hanging Gardens of Babylon
# Statue of Zeus at Olympia
# Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
# Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
# Colossus of Rhodes
# Lighthouse of Alexandria
Classical art
: "See also Ancient art"
Art in Ancient Greece
Roman art
* Ancient Roman music
* Roman sculpture
Classical architecture
Ancient Greek architecture
* Parthenon
* Temple of Artemis
* Acropolis
* Ancient Agora
* Arch of Hadrian
* Statue of Zeus
* Colossus of Rhodes
* Temple of Hephaestus
* Samothrace temple complex
Roman architecture
* Aedes (Roman)
* Roman aqueduct
* Basilica
* Roman Baths (Bath)
* Roman bridge
* Colosseum
* Forum (Roman)
* Ancient Roman monuments
* Roman road
* Roman temple
* Roman theatre (structure)
* Roman villa
Geography of the classical period
Geography at the time of Ancient Greece
* Aegean Sea
* Alexandria
* Athens
* Antioch
* Corinth
* Delphi
* Hellespont
* Macedon
* Miletus
* Olympia
* Pergamon
* Sparta
* Thermopylae
* Troy
Geography at the time of Ancient Rome
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* Borders of the Roman Empire
* Roman Britain
* Roman Campagna
* Roman Gaul
* Italia
* Roman province
* Roman Umbria
* Via Flaminia
Roman provinces 120 AD
* Achaea
* Ægyptus
* Africa
* Alpes Cottiae
* Alpes Maritimae
* Alpes Poenninae
* Arabia Petraea
* Armenia Inferior
* Asia
* Assyria
* Bithynia
* Britannia
* Cappadocia
* Cilicia
* Commagene
* Corduene
* Corsica et Sardinia
* Creta et Cyrenaica
* Cyprus
* Dacia
* Dalmatia
* Epirus
* Galatia
* Gallia Aquitania
* Gallia Belgica
* Gallia Lugdunensis
* Gallia Narbonensis
* Germania Inferior
* Germania Superior
* Hispania Baetica
* Hispania Lusitania
* Hispania Tarraconensis
* Italia
* Iudaea
* Iturea
* Lycaonia
* Lycia
* Macedonia
* Mauretania Caesariensis
* Mauretania Tingitana
* Moesia
* Noricum
* Numidia
* Osroene
* Pannonia
* Pamphylia
* Pisidia
* Pontus
* Raetia
* Sicilia
* Sophene
* Syria
* Taurica
* Thracia
Classical history
: "Main article: Classical history
* Bronze Age
* City-state
* Classical Antiquity
* Greco-Roman relations
* Magic in the Greco-Roman world
Classical Greek history
* Greek Dark Ages
* Hellenistic period
* Military history of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek society
: "Main article: Ancient Greek society"
* Cuisine of Ancient Greece
* Economy of Ancient Greece
* Law in Ancient Greece
* Pederasty in ancient Greece
* Prostitution in Ancient Greece
* Slavery in Ancient Greece
Classical Roman history
* Ancient Rome
* Crisis of the Roman Republic
* Decline of the Roman Empire
* Etruscan civilization
* Founding of Rome
* History of Rome
* Roman conquest of Britain
* Roman departure from Britain
* Roman Empire
* Roman Kingdom
* Roman Republic
* Western Roman Empire
Military history of Ancient Rome
* Political history of the Roman military
* Structural history of the Roman military
* Technological history of the Roman military
* War: Campaign history of the Roman military
** Roman civil wars
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Roman society
: "Main article: Roman society"
* Adoption in ancient Rome
* Roman army
* Roman assemblies
* Auctoritas
* Buddhism and the Roman world
* Roman citizenship
* Collegiality
* Roman commerce
* Roman consul
** Republican consuls
** Early imperial consuls
** Late imperial consuls
* Roman currency
* Cursus honorum
* Roman Emperor
** List of Roman Emperors
* Roman festivals
* Roman funerals and burial
* Roman finance
* Roman gardens
* Homosexuality in ancient Rome
* Imperium
* Roman law
** Roman laws
** Status in Roman legal system
* Local government (ancient Roman)
* Roman Magistrates
* Ancient Roman marriage
* Roman naming conventions
* Roman navy
* Political institutions of Rome
* Roman province
* Roman relations with the Parthians and Sassanians
* Roman school
* Roman Senate
* Sino-Roman relations
* Slavery in ancient Rome
* Social class in ancient Rome
* Roman usurper
Classical Egyptian history
* Third Intermediate Period (21st to 25th Dynasties; 11th to 7th centuries BC)
* Late Period of Ancient Egypt (26th to 31st Dynasties; 7th century BC to 332 BC)
** History of Egypt under Achaemenid Persian domination (525 BC to 332 BC) - "see also Achaemenid Dynasty"
* History of Greek and Roman Egypt (332 BC to AD 639)
** Ptolemaic Egypt (332 BC to 30 BC)
*** Macedonian Kings (332 BC to 305 BC)
*** Ptolemaic Dynasty (305 BC to 30 BC)
** Aegyptus (Roman province) (30 BC to 639 AD)
"See also the from the Third Intermediate Period on"
Classical philology
Classical language
Ancient Greek
* Aeolic dialect
* Attic dialect
* Doric dialect
* Greek alphabet
* Homeric Greek
* Ionic dialect
* Koine
Classical Latin
* Latin alphabet
* Roman cursive
Classical literature
: "Main article: Classical literature"
Classical Greek literature
Poets
* Bucolic poetry: Theocritus
* Didactic poetry: Hesiod
* Epic poetry: Homer
* Lyric poetry: Alcaeus, Alcman, Archilochus, Bacchylides, Mimnermus, Pindar, Sappho, Semonides, Simonides of Ceos, Tyrtaeus
* Classical metersPlaywrights
*Tragedians: Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles,
Comedic playwrights: Aristophanes, Menander Prose writers
* Fiction: Xenophon
* Historiography: Herodotus, Plutarch, Polybius, Thucydides, Xenophon
* Oratory: Aeschines, Demosthenes, Isocrates, Lysias
* Other: Lucian, Plato
Classical Latin literature
Poets
* Didactic poets: Lucretius, Ovid, Virgil
* Elegiac poets: Catullus, Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus
* Epic poets: Ennius, Lucan, Ovid, Virgil
* Lyric poets: Catullus, HoracePlaywrights: Plautus, Terence
Prose writers
* Epistolary writers: Pliny the younger, Seneca
* Fiction writers: Apuleius, Petronius
* Historiographers: Caesar, Cornelius Nepos, Livy, Sallust, Suetonius, TacitusOrators: Cicero
Classical Textual Criticism
* Greek textual criticism
* Latin textual criticism
Classical philosophy
:"Main articles: Classical philosophy and Greek philosophy. See also History of Western philosophy."
Periods of classical philosophy
* Pre-Socratic philosophers
* Hellenistic philosophy
* Roman philosophy
chools of thought
* Aristotelianism
* Cynicism
* Cyrenaic hedonism
* Eclecticism
* Epicureanism
* Neo-Platonism
* Neo-Pythagoreanism
* Platonism
* Pre-Socratic naturalism
* Pyrrhonism
* Pythagoreanism
* Sophism
* Stoicism
Classical philosophers
* Aenesidemus
* Agrippa
* Alexander of Aphrodisias
* Ammonius Saccas
* Anaxagoras
* Anaximander
* Anaximenes
* Antisthenes
* Antiochus of Ascalon
* Arcesilaus
* Aristippus
* Aristotle
* Carneades
* Chrysippus
* Cleanthes
* Clitomachus
* Crates of Thebes
* Cratylus
* Democritus
* Diogenes of Apollonia
* Diogenes of Sinope
* Empedocles
* Epictetus
* Epicurus
* Euclid of Megara
* Heraclitus
* Hippias
* Iamblichus
* Leucippus
* Melissus
* Panaetius
* Parmenides
* Philo of Larissa
* Philolaus
* Plato
* Plotinus
* Posidonius
* Porphyry
* Prodicus
* Protagoras
* Pyrrho
* Pythagoras
* Seneca
* Sextus Empiricus
* Socrates
* Speusippus
* Stilpo
* Thales
* Theophrastus
* Timon
* Xenophanes
* Xenocrates
* Zeno of Citium
* Zeno of Elea
Classical religion and mythology
Religion and mythology in Ancient Greece
* Achilles
* Apollo
* Centaurs
* Dionysus
* Dragons in Greek mythology
* Earth-gods
* Eleusinian Mysteries
* Golden Fleece
* Gorgon / Medusa
* Hellenic polytheism
* Heracles
** The Twelve Labours of Heracles
* Jason
* Minotaur
* Nymphs
* Odysseus
* Odyssey
* Oedipus
* Pan
* Perseus
* Olympians
* Primordial gods
* Satyrs
* Sea-gods
* Seven Against Thebes
* Theseus
* Titans
* Triptolemus
* Trojan War
* Zeus
Religion and mythology in Ancient Rome
* Pontifex Maximus
* Roman Pontiff
Classical science and technology
Ancient Greek science and technology
* Agriculture of Ancient Greece
* Archimedes
* Greek astronomy
* Geographical technology
** Ptolemy
* Greek mathematics
** Euclid
* Medicine in ancient Greece
** Hippocrates
** Galen
* Pottery of Ancient Greece
Roman science and technology
* Roman abacus
* Roman arithmetic
* Roman agriculture
* Roman calendar
* Cement / concrete
* Corvus (ship's weapon)
* Ancient Roman cranes
* Roman engineering
* Glassblowing
* Medical community of ancient Rome
* Military of ancient Rome
* Roman numerals
* Plumbing
* Roman road
* Ancient Roman units of measurement
* Sanitation in ancient Rome
Classical theatre
* Amphitheatre
Ancient Greek theatre
Ancient Roman theatre
* Circus Maximus
* Roman amphitheatres
Classical studies scholars
* J.L. Ackrill
* Frederic de Forest Allen
* Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
* Cyril Bailey
* Jonathan Barnes
* August Immanuel Bekker
* Theodor Bergk
* Friedrich Blass
* Herbert Bloch
* Hermann Bonitz
* Walter Burkert
* John Burnet
* Myles Burnyeat
* Ingram Bywater
* Lewis Campbell
* John Chadwick
* Harold F. Cherniss
* Wendell Clausen
* F.M. Cornford
* John Dewar Denniston
* Hermann Alexander Diels
* E.R. Dodds
* Kenneth Dover
* Moses I. Finley
* Eduard Fraenkel
* Ludwig Friedländer
* Edward Gibbon
* Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
* William Watson Goodwin
* James Bradstreet Greenough
* Jasper Griffin
* Miriam Griffin
* George Grote
* W.K.C. Guthrie
* Edith Hamilton
* Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann
* Karl Friedrich Hermann
* Felix Jacoby
* Werner Jaeger
* Richard Janko
* Henry Stuart Jones
* Benjamin Jowett
* Adolf Kirchhoff
* Geoffrey Kirk
* H.D.F. Kitto
* Raphael Kuhner
* Karl Lachmann
* Karl Lehrs
* David Malcolm Lewis
* George Cornewall Lewis
* Henry Liddell
* Johan Nicolai Madvig
* Augustus Meineke
* Theodor Mommsen
* Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro
* Gilbert Murray
* Max Müller
* Gregory Nagy
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* Robert Maxwell Ogilvie
* G.E.L. Owen
* Denys Page
* Milman Parry
* W.D. Ross
* Robert Scott
* D.R. Shackleton Bailey
* Herbert Weir Smyth
* Ronald Syme
* Michael Ventris
* Gregory Vlastos
* Martin Litchfield West
* Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
* Friedrich August Wolf
* Eduard Zeller
Classics-related lists
: "Main list List of topics related to ancient Rome"
* List of classical architecture terms
* List of classical meters
Ancient Greek lists
* List of ancient Greek cities
* List of ancient Greeks
* List of ancient Greek tyrants
* List of Greek mythological creatures
* List of Greek mythological figures
* List of ancient Macedonians
Roman lists
* List of Latin abbreviations
* List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire
** List of Roman aqueducts by date
* List of Roman amphitheatres
* List of Roman cognomina
* Lists of Roman consuls
** List of Republican Roman Consuls
** List of early imperial Roman consuls
** List of late imperial Roman consuls
* List of Roman deities / List of Roman gods
** List of Roman Goddesses
* List of Roman Emperors
** Concise List of Roman Emperors
** List of Roman emperors to be condemned
* List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology
* List of Roman gladiator types
* List of Roman laws
* List of Roman legions
* List of Roman nomina
* Lists of Roman places
** List of Roman place names in Britain
** List of Roman places in Hispania
* List of Romans
* List of Roman sites
* List of Roman tribes
* List of Roman triumphal arches in Italy outside Rome
* List of Roman usurpers
* List of Imperial Roman victory titles
* List of Roman villas in England
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