The Oxford history of the classical world / edited by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Greece. Greece : the history of the Archaic period / George Forrest -- Homer / Oliver Taplin -- Greek myth and Hesiod / Jasper Griffin -- Lyric and elegiac poetry / Ewen Bowie -- Early Greek philosophy / Martin West -- Greece : the history of the classical period / Simon Hornblower -- Greek drama / Peter Levi -- Greek historians / Oswyn Murray -- Life and society in classical Greece / Oswyn Murray -- Classical Greek philosophy / Julia Annas -- Greek religion / Robert Parker -- Greek art and architecture / John Boardman -- The history of the hellenistic period / Simon Price -- Hellenistic culture and literature / Robin Lane Fox -- Hellenistic philosophy and science / Jonathan Barnes -- Early Rome and Italy / Michael Crawford -- The expansion of Rome / Elizabeth Rawson -- The first Roman literature / Peter Brown -- Cicero and Rome / Miriam Griffin -- The poets of the late republic / Robin Nisbet -- Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman art / Roger Ling.

Rome. The founding of the empire / David Stockton -- The arts of government / Nicholas Purcell -- Augustan poetry and society / R.O.A.M. Lyne -- Virgil / Jasper Griffin -- Roman historians / Andrew Lintott -- The arts of prose : the early empire / Donald Russell -- Silver Latin poetry and the Latin novel / Richard Jenkyns -- Later philosophy / Anthony Meredith -- The arts of living / Roger Ling -- Roman life and society / John Matthews -- Roman art and architecture / R.J.A. Wilson -- Envoi : on taking leave of antiquity / Henry Chadwick.

Provides a historical framework of the Greco-Roman world focusing on the political and social history, literature, philosophy, the arts, etc.