This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the study of ancient history.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Abbreviations, Reference Works
• Abbreviations and Glossary, Ancient Authors
• Timeline and Maps
• 1 Personal Perspectives - Josiah Ober, Peter Derow, Andrea Giardina, Neil McLynn, Kathryn Welch
• Part I: Evidence
• 2 Historiography - John Marincola
• 3 Epigraphical Cultures of the Classical Mediterranean: Greek, Latin, and Beyond - Gregory Rowe
• 4 Papyrology - Alan K. Bowman
• 5 Numismatics - A. R. Meadows
• 6 Archaeology and Ancient History - Stephen L. Dyson
• 7 Oratory - Catherine Steel
• 8 Ancient History Through Ancient Literature - Tim Whitmarsh
• Part II: Problems and Approaches
• 9 Ancient History Today - J. A. North
• 10 Political History - Robert Morstein-Marx
• 11 Economic and Social History - Neville Morley
• 12 Ethnicity and Culture - Edward Herring
• 13 Population and Demography - Walter Scheidel
• 14 Writing Women into History - Amy Richlin
• 15 Interpreting Myth - Carol Dougherty
• 16 Environmental History - Robert Sallares
• Part III: People and Places
• 17 The Near East - Maria Brosius
• 18 Egypt under the Pharaohs - John Ray
• 19 The Jews - Gideon Bohak
• 20 The Greeks - Thomas Harrison
• 21 Asia Minor - Peter Thonemann
• 22 Rome - Christer Bruun
• 23 Italy beyond Rome - Kathryn Lomas
• 24 North Africa - Josephine Crawley Quinn
• 25 The Iberian Peninsula in the Roman Period - A. T. Fear
• 26 The "Celts" - Constanze Witt
• Part IV: Encountering the Divine
• 27 Religion - Mark Humphries
• 28 The Emergence of Christianity - John Curran
• Part V: Living and Dying
• 29 The Family - Mary Harlow and Tim Parkin
• 30 Food - John Wilkins
• 31 Eros: Love and Sexuality - James Davidson
• 32 Housing - Lisa C. Nevett
• 33 Entertainment - David Potter
• 34 Education - Jason König
• 35 Medicine - Helen King
• 36 Death - David Noy
• Part VI: Economy
• 37 The Mediterranean and the History of Antiquity - R. Bruce Hitchner
• 38 Ancient Economies - John Davies
• 39 Labor: Free and Unfree - Peter Fibiger Bang
• 40 The Countryside - Robert Witcher
• 41 Finance and Resources: Public, Private, and Personal - Paul Millett
• 42 Ancient Technology - Tracey Rihll
• Part VII: Politics and Power
• 43 Structures - Hans Beck
• 44 Citizenship - Andrew Lintott
• 45 Law - Elizabeth A. Meyer
• 46 Warfare - Louis Rawlings
• Part VIII: Repercussions
• 47 The Impact of Antiquity - Rosamond McKitterick
• 48 Ancient History and National Identity - Andrew Erskine
• 49 Hollywood's Ancient World - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
• Bibliography