From the Book - First American edition.
Do classics have a future?
Ancient Greece. Builder of ruins ; Sappho speaks ; Which Thucydides can you trust? ; Alexander : how great? ; What made the Greeks laugh?
Heroes & villains of early Rome. Who wanted Remus dead? ; Hannibal at bay ; Quousque tandem
? ; Roman art thieves ; Spinning Caesar's murder
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
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
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 ; Astérix and the Romans