古典文學里程碑（英文版）

Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Reading the classics today - the classical
canon - the classics in translation - the form
and pronunciation of Greek and Latin names
- metre in classical verse - dates - Roman
numerals - maps
I　The Homeric age
1　The spread of civilisation： the past in the
present - from neolithic tribalism to the
first cities - the Minoans
2　The Greeks： the Mycenaeans - Dark-Age
Greece - the Greek language - the Greek
alphabet - Bronze-Age society and culture
- Mycenaean religion
3　Homer and epic poetry： the background
- the Iliad - the Odyssey - Hesiod
II　Greece in the fifth century BC
From Archaic to early-Classical Greece：
Athens - Sparta - the Persian Wars - women，
resident foreigners， and slaves - colonisation
5　Religion， the arts， education， and books：
religious beliefs and practices - architecture
- painting - sculpture - music - education，
literacy， and books
6　Lyric poetry： Pindar and his predecessors：
the lyric - Sappho and Anacreon - Pindar
7　Sophocles and Athenian drama： tragedy - the
three tragedians - Aeschylus - Sophocles -
Euripides - Aristophanes and comedy
8　Herodotus and Greek history： Greek historians
- Herodotus and the Persian Wars - Thucydides
and the Peloponnesian War - Xenophon and
the Persian Expedition
9　Plato and philosophy： the pre-Socratics -
Socrates - Plato - Aristotle
Interchapter： the Hellenistic age
Alexanders empire and its successors
- language and society - the visual arts
- literature - history - philosophy and
science - scholarship and libraries
III　Late-Republican and early-Imperial Rome
10　The expansion of Rome： from city-state to
superstate - the Latin languag~ - Roman names
11　Republic and Empire： conquest abroad， strife
at home - politics and society - religion
12　Maintaining the state： economics and
technology - the Roman army
13　The arts： painting， sculpture， and architecture
- drama： Plautus， Terence， Seneca - education，
books， and libraries
14　Cicero： rhetoric and philosophy - the legacy of
Greece： rhetoric， philosophy - Cicero - Seneca
15　Virgil： from pastoral to epic - Theocritus and
pastoral poetry - Virgil - the Eclogues -
the Georgics - the Aeneid - Virgils reputation
and influence
16　Horace： epigram， lyric， and satire - Catullus
- Horace - Juvenal
17　Ovid： love poetry and the novel - Ovid -
the novel - Longus - Petronius - Apuleius
18　Tacitus and Roman history： Roman historians
- Caesar and the Gallic War - SaUust - Livy -
Tacitus - Plutarch - Suetonius
Afterword
Appendix： Classical studies
The survival of ancient texts - the
transmission of texts - textual
scholarship - history and archaeology
Reference bibliography
Index and guide to pronunciation