How Can I Find Out More?
Introductions to the Ancient World
- Beard, Mary & John Henderson, Classics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
- John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, & Oswyns Murray (eds.), Oxford History of the Classical World (Oxford, 1993)
- John Boardman, Greek Art revised edition (London, Thames & Hudson, 1973)
- Paul Cartledge (ed.), Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 1998)
- Paul Cartledge, The Greeks ()
- J.A.C.T., The World of Athens (Cambridge, 1984)
- Peter Jones, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Classics (Duckworth: London, 1999)
- Peter Jones & Keith Sidwell (eds.), The World of Rome (Cambridge, 1997)
- A. J. Spawforth & S. Hornblower (eds.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, third edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)
There is also quite a lot of discussion of how Classics has developed, and what it has to contribute in the 21st century:
- Richard Jenkyns ed., The Legacy of Rome: a new appraisal (Oxford, 1992)
- T. P. Wiseman ed., Classics in progress: Essays on ancient Greece and Rome (London, 2002).
A regular interpreter of the classical world is Peter Jones. He contributes regularly to the press, in particular with a column devoted to pointing out contemporary parallels with ancient, ‘Ancient and Modern’, in The Spectator; a selection of these have been published, Ancient and Modern, (London: Duckworth, 1999). He ran a series first on learning Latin and then on learning Greek in the Daily Telegraph; these were very successful, and have also been published: Learn Latin (London: Duckworth,1997) and Learn Ancient Greek (London: Duckworth, 1998).
