Classical Studies

Classics (also Classical Studies) is the branch of the humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world (Bronze Age ca. BC 3000 – Late Antiquity ca. AD 300–600); especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (ca. BC 600 – AD 600). Traditionally, the study of the Classics (the period's literature) was the principal study of the humanities. ...more

The Iliad
The Aeneid
The Odyssey
The Histories
Metamorphoses
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
The Republic
The Symposium
Lysistrata
The Twelve Caesars
Medea
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

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