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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Do Classics Have a Future?
Section One: Ancient Greece
1. Builder of Ruins
2. Sappho Speaks
3. Which Thucydides Can You Trust?
4. Alexander: How Great?
5. What Made the Greeks Laugh?
Section Two: Heroes & Villains of early Rome
6. Who Wanted Remus Dead?
7. Hannibal at Bay
8. Quousque Tandem …?
9. Roman Art Thieves
10. Spinning Caesar’s Murder
Section Three: Imperial Rome – Emperors, Empresses & Enemies
11. Looking for the Emperor
12. Cleopatra: The Myth
13. Married to the Empire
14. Caligula’s Satire?
15. Nero’s Colosseum?
16. British Queen
17. Bit-part Emperors
18. Hadrian and his Villa
Section Four: Rome from the Bottom up
19. Ex-slaves and Snobbery
20. Fortune-telling, Bad Breath and Stress
21. Keeping the Armies out of Rome
22. Life and Death in Roman Britain
23. South Shields Aramaic
Section Five: Arts & Culture; Tourists & Scholars
24. Only Aeschylus Will Do?
25. Arms and the Man
26. Don’t Forget your Pith Helmet
27. Pompeii for the Tourists
28. The Golden Bough
29. Philosophy meets Archaeology
30. What Gets Left Out
31. Astérix and the Romans
Afterword: Reviewing Classics
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Sources
List of Figures
Index
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