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Civilization, Classical

Here are entered works on both ancient Greek and Roman civilization. Works on the combined civilizations of Greece and Rome following the conquest of Greece in 146 B.C. are entered under Civilization, Greco-Roman. Works on the spread of Greek civilization and influence throughout the ancient world following the conquests of Alexander the Great are entered under Hellenism.

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• Classical dictionaries
• English literature -- Classical influences
• Europe -- Civilization -- Classical influences
• Rome -- Civilization
• Spain -- Civilization -- Classical influences

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• Classical antiquity

• Classical Civilization (2 volumes; New York: Prentice Hall, c1940), by Herbert Newell Couch and Russel M. Geer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Profession and Performance: Aspects of Oratory in the Greco-Roman World (London: University of London, c2013), ed. by Christos Kremmydas, J. G. F. Powell, and Lene Rubinstein (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1983), by Patrick Brantlinger
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Classica et Mediaevalia (partial serial archives)

• Comptes-Rendus des Séances (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; in French) (partial serial archives)

• From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), ed. by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Fiona McHardy (PDF at Ohio State)

• Athenaei Naucratitae Deipnosophistarum Libri Quindecim: Ex Optimis Codicibus Nunc Primum Collatis Emendavit Ac Supplevit Nova Latina Versione (Athenaus text in Greek; notes and commentary in Latin; 14 volumes (5 of Atheanus, 9 of commentary); Strasbourg: Societatis Bipontinae, 1801-1807), by Athenaus of Naucratis, ed. by Johann Schweighäuser, contrib. by Isaac Casaubon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Deipnosophists: or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus (3 volumes, with varying book divisions; London: H. G. Bohn, 1854), by Athenaus of Naucratis, trans. by Charles Duke Yonge
  • all volumes: page images with commentary at Wisconsin
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (printing with books 1-7): Gutenberg text, HTML, and page images
  • Volume I (printing with books 1-6): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Graeco-Roman Institutions, From Anti-Evolutionist Points of View: Roman Law, Classical Slavery, Social Conditions (Oxford: Parker and Co., 1890), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times, ed. by Elaine K. Gazda (illustrated HTML at Michigan)

• Testimonium Animae, or, Greek and Roman Before Jesus Christ: A Series of Essays and Sketches Dealing with The Spiritual Elements in Classical Civilization (New York et al.: G. E. Stechert and Co., 1908), by E. G. Sihler (multiple formats at Indiana)

• The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius (3 volumes with Latin and English translation; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: W. Heinemann, reprinted 1982-1988), by Aulus Gellius, trans. by John Carew Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1795), by Aulus Gellius, trans. by William Beloe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from Aulus Gellius: Being Selections and Adaptations From the Noctes Atticae, Edited With Notes, Exercises and Vocabularies for the Use of Lower Forms (main text in Latin, notes in English; London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1888), by Aulus Gellius, ed. by G. Herbert Nall
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Bibliotheca Classica: or, A Classical Dictionary (4th edition; London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell..., 1801), by John Lemprière (page images at Google)
• A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (London: John Murray, 1890), ed. by William Smith, William Wayte, and G. E. Marindin (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Dizionario Epigrafico di Antichità Romane (A-H, in Italian (some later volumes have been issued, but are edited by others, and may be under copyright); 1895-1922), ed. by Ettore de Ruggiero
  • Volume I (A-B): page images at Michigan
  • Volume II, Part 1 (C-Con): page images at Michigan
  • Volume II, Part 2 (Consularis-Dinomogetimarus): page images at Michigan
  • Volume III, Part 3 (Diocletianus-Extramurani): page images at Michigan
  • Volume III (F-H): page images at Michigan
• The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (18th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (19th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: A Critical Guide to Commentary, 1660-1960, by John W. Velz (page images at uvic.ca)

• Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work (originally published 1966; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Todd K. Bender (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance (originally published 1989; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Patrañas: or, Spanish Stories, Legendary and Traditional (London: Griffith and Farran, 1870), by Rachel Harriette Busk, illust. by Edward Henry Corbould
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Roman Empire: Roots of Imperialism (London and New York: Pluto Press, c2010), by Neville Morley (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Mark W. Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Roman World: The Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization, by John Lord (Gutenberg text)
• Classical Civilization (2 volumes; New York: Prentice Hall, c1940), by Herbert Newell Couch and Russel M. Geer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Nachrichtenwesen des Altertums, mit Besonderer Rücksicht auf die Römer (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1913), by Wolfgang Riepl
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Negro in Greek and Roman Civilization: A Study of the Ethiopian Type (1922 dissertation reprint (does not include material added later to its 3 chapters); Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1929), by Grace Maynard Hadley Beardsley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Comprehensive Study Guide for Wheelock's Latin (prepublication version), by Dale A. Grote (text files in Hong Kong)

• Soldiers, Cities, and Civilians in Roman Syria (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Nigel Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Roman Law and the British Empire (1950), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)

• Toward an Augustan Poetic: Edmund Waller's "Reform" of English Poetry (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962), by Alexander W. Allison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milton and the Renaissance Ovid (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Davis P. Harding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pope's Horatian Poems (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1966), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• British Justice: The Scottish Contribution (Hamlyn Lectures, #13; London: Stevens and Sons, 1961), by T. B. Smith (PDF in the UK)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wilhelm von Humboldts Geschichtliche Weltanschauung im Lichte des Klassischen Subjektivismus der Denker und Dichter von Königsberg, Jena, und Weimar (Leipziger Studien aus dem Gebiet der Geschichte, v. 7 #3, in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1901), by Otto Kittel
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance (originally published 1989; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work (originally published 1966; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Todd K. Bender (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, by Vern G. Swanson (illustrated HTML at artrenewal.org)

• French Classicism (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v4; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), by C. H. C. Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), by Pierre Rosenberg (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1987), by David Van Zanten (PDF files at MIT)

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Esquires (in English and French; London: Printed for the authors, 1773-1779), by Robert Adam and James Adam
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Classical Divide: Imagination and Rationality (delisted 25 Aug 2023; free online edition withdrawn by author), by Nanette Norris

More items available under broader and related terms at left.