Introduction: Do Classics Have a Future? Section One. Ancient Greece Builder of Ruins Sappho Speaks Which Thucydides Can You Trust? Alexander : How Great? What Made the Greeks Laugh? Section Two. Heroes & Villains of Early Rome Who Wanted Remus Dead? Hannibal At Bay Quousque Tandem E? Roman Art Thieves Spinning Caesar's Murder Section Three. Imperial Rome/Emperors, Empresses & Enemies Looking for the Emperor Cleopatra : The Myth Married to the Empire Caligula's Satire? Nero's Colosseum? British Queen Bit-Part Emperors Hadrian and his Villa Section Four. Rome from the Bottom Up Ex-Slaves and Snobbery Fortune-Telling, Bad Breath and Stress Keeping the Armies out of Rome Life and Death in Roman Britain South Shields Aramaic Section Five. Arts & Culture; Tourists & Scholars Only Aeschylus Will Do? Arms and the Man Don't Forget Your Pith Helmet Pompeii for the Tourists The Golden Bough Philosophy meets Archaeology What Gets Left Out Asterix and the Romans Afterword: Reviewing Classics
