Introduction / Oliver Taplin.
The spring of the muses : Homer and related poetry / Oliver Taplin.
The strangeness of 'song culture' : archaic Greek poetry / Leslie Kurke.
Powers of horror and laughter : the great age of drama / Peter Wilson.
Charting the poles of history : Herodotos and Thoukydides / Leslie Kurke.
Sages, sophists, and philosophers : Greek wisdom literature / Andrea Wilson Nightingale.
Observers of speeches and hearers of action : the Athenian orators / Chris Carey.
Sophisticates and solecisms : Greek literature after the classical period / Jane L. Lightfoot.
Romanized Greeks and Hellenized Romans : later Greek literature / Jane L. Lightfoot.
Primitivism and power : the beginnings of Latin literature / Matthew Leigh.
Forging a national identity : prose literature down to the time of Augustus / Christina S. Kraus.
Escapes from orthodoxy : poetry of the Republic / Llewelyn Morgan.
Creativity out of chaos : poetry between the death of Caesar and the death of Virgil / Llewelyn Morgan.
Coming to terms with the Empire : Poetry of the later Augustan and Tiberian period / Philip Hardie.
The path between truculence and servility : prose literature from Augustus to Hadrian / Christina S. Kraus.
Oblique politics : epic of the imperial period / Matthew Leigh.
Imperial space and time : the literature of leisure / Catherine Connors.
Culture wars : Latin literature from the second century to the end of the classical era / Michael Dewar.
