Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mediaeval and humanistic Greek $a Classical scholarship 1300-1850 $a The tradition of Erasmus $a Classical influences on European culture 1500-1700 $a Renaissance Latin verse $a Americans and German scholarship 1770-1870 $a "What is a classic?" $a The last days of Pompeii $a The classics in Britain today $a Toynbee's Greece $a The virtues of a literary culture $a The limits of Hellenisation $a Greek popular morality $a Revolution in Roman history $a A bad press for Rome? $a Women in Greece and Rome $a Greek homosexuality --Classical attitudes to modern issues --The Olympic games $a Food in antiquity --Aristotle and Greek tragedy $a Kott's Greek tragedy $a A failure to face up to tragedy $a Steiner's 'Babel' $a On translations of epic and drama $a Tacitus --The Delphic oracle.