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Advanced Topics

The remaining sections are deeper or more specialized. You do not need to study all of them. Pick according to your interests after you have finished (or are very far along in) the Core:

  • V. Religion, Myth, and Society: Good if you are drawn to ancient beliefs, rituals, social structures, or gender roles.
  • VI. Philosophy & Science: Choose this track if you are especially interested in ancient thought, logic, ethics, or the history of science/medicine.
  • VII. Material Culture & Evidence: Ideal if you love archaeology, art, architecture, visual culture, or physical evidence (coins, inscriptions, ruins).
  • VIII. Methods of Classical Scholarship: For those who want to understand how classicists read, edit, and interpret texts at a professional level.
  • IX. Late Antiquity & Transformation: If you are curious about the transition from classical antiquity to the early medieval/Christian world.
  • X. Reception of Classics: Perfect if you enjoy seeing how ancient ideas, stories, and images have been reused in later literature, art, film, and modern culture.

Religion, Myth, and Society

Subject Resource
Greek & Roman Religion Oxford Handbook of Greek Religion
Mythology Gantz, Early Greek Myth
Daily Life & Slavery Pomeroy - Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves

Philosophy & Science

Area Resource
Presocratics → Plato Plato, Cooper edition (search for "Plato: Complete Works" edited by John M. Cooper)
Aristotle Aristotle, Barnes Companion (see "The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle" via open previews or search Archive.org)
Hellenistic Schools Long, Hellenistic Philosophy
Medicine & Science Hippocrates & Galen (Loeb, Archive.org) (Loeb volumes)

Material Culture & Evidence

Area Resource
Archaeology Biers, Archaeology of Greece
Art & Architecture
Coins & Inscriptions Sandys, Latin Epigraphy (search Archive.org for open editions)

Methods of Classical Scholarship

Area Resource
Textual criticism West, Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique (search academic previews or Archive.org)
Manuscripts & transmission Reynolds & Wilson, Scribes and Scholars
Philology Dickey, Ancient Greek Scholarship (open PDF) (preview; full via institutional access)

Late Antiquity & Transformation

Area Resource
Christianity & Empire Cameron, Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity
Augustine Confessions (Perseus or http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1101.htm)
Neoplatonism Plotinus (Perseus or open translations on Archive.org)

Reception of Classics

Area Resource
Classical reception Hardwick & Stray, Companion to Classical Receptions (search Oxford Academic previews)

Final Projects

Subject Why study? Book Videos
Capstone Project Produce a research thesis, annotated translation, or multimedia project using primary sources and scholarly methods. The Chicago Manual of Style (for formatting); Writing for Classicists by Gillian Clark Research Methods in Classics (MIT OCW) (use general humanities research guides)

Note: Free primary texts are available via: