List of basic classics topics

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Classics is the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of the Ancient Mediterranean World — particularly Ancient Greece and Rome during the time frame known as classical antiquity. The term also refers to texts written in the ancient Mediterranean world. The study of classics was the initial field in the humanities and remains important in that branch of learning today. Basic topics in the classics include:

Contents 1 Nature of the classics 2 Forebears of the Classical World 3 Greece 3.1 History of Greece 3.2 Greek philosophy 3.3 Greek science 3.4 Greek language 3.5 Greek art 3.5.1 Greek literature 3.5.2 Greek architecture 3.5.3 Greek sculpture 3.6 Greek mythology and religion 4 Rome 4.1 History of Rome 4.2 Latin language 4.3 Roman literature 4.4 Roman mythology and religion 5 Legacy of the Classical World 5.1 Languages 5.2 Occidental literature 5.3 Religion 5.4 Philosophy 5.5 Politics

[edit] Nature of the classics

Main article: Classics

• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome

[edit] Forebears of the Classical World

The Classical civilisation did not develop in isolation; the ancient Greeks were indebted to their geographical proximity to the much older, intellectually and technologically sophisticated cultures of the East.

• Babylonia
• Ancient Egypt
• Phoenicia

[edit] Greece

[edit] History of Greece

• The Minoan civilization
• The Mycenaean civilization
• The Dark Ages
• Classical Greece
• Alexander the Great
• The Hellenistic period
• Roman conquest of Greece
• The Byzantine (Roman) Empire

[edit] Greek philosophy

• The Prescocratics. These are philosophers who worked before Plato.
  • The Milesians. These are the earliest Greek philosophers of whom we know. They worked in Miletus in Ionia in the 6th century BCE.
    • Thales
    • Anaximander
    • Anaximenes
  • Heraclitus
  • The Eleatics. These philosophers worked in Elea in Magna Graecia.
    • Parmenides
    • Zeno
  • The Atomists
    • Leucippus
    • Democritus
• Pythagoras
• Socrates
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Epicureanism
• Stoicism

[edit] Greek science

• Greek astronomy and geography
  • Ptolemy
• Greek mathematics
  • Euclid
• Greek medicine
  • Hippocrates
  • Galen

[edit] Greek language

• Greek alphabet
• Ancient Greek
  • Attic dialect
  • Aeolic dialect
  • Doric dialect
  • Ionic dialect
  • Homeric Greek
• Koine

[edit] Greek art

[edit] Greek literature

• Greek literature
• Poets
  • Homer
    • The Iliad
    • The Odyssey
  • Hesiod
    • Theogony
    • Works and Days
• Playwrights
  • Tragedians
    • Aeschylus
    • Euripides
    • Sophocles
  • Comic playwrights
    • Aristophanes
• The New Testament

[edit] Greek architecture

• The Classical orders
  • Doric order
  • Ionic order
  • Corinthian order
• The Parthenon

[edit] Greek sculpture

• Phidias

[edit] Greek mythology and religion

• Greek mythology
• Greek religion

[edit] Rome

[edit] History of Rome

• The founding of Rome
• Roman Kingdom
• Roman Republic
• Roman Empire
• The fall of Rome

[edit] Latin language

• Latin
  • Classical Latin
  • Vulgar Latin

[edit] Roman literature

• Poets
  • Virgil
    • The Aeneid
    • The Eclogues
    • The Georgics
  • Ovid
    • Metamorphoses
  • Lucretius
    • On the Nature of Things
• Prose writers
  • Cicero
• The Vulgate

[edit] Roman mythology and religion

• Roman mythology
• Roman religion
• Mystery religions
• Early Christianity

[edit] Legacy of the Classical World

[edit] Languages

The Classical languages have been immensely influential on all western European languages, bestowing on them an international learned vocabulary. Until the 17th century, the Latin language itself was used as the international medium of communication in diplomatic, scientific, philosophical and religious matters.

• The Romance languages
• The Modern Greek and Griko languages
• Latin influence on English
• Greek influence on English
• Ecclesiastical Latin

[edit] Occidental literature

• The Divine Comedy
• Paradise Lost

[edit] Religion

• Christianity

[edit] Philosophy

• Western philosophy

[edit] Politics

• Democracy

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