Outline of classical studies explained

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to classical studies:

Classical studies (Classics for short) - earliest branch of the humanities, which covers the languages, literature, history, art, and other cultural aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world. The field focuses primarily on, but is not limited to, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during classical antiquity, the era spanning from the late Bronze Age of Ancient Greece during the Minoan and Mycenaean periods (c. 1600–1100 BC) through the period known as Late Antiquity to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, c. 500 AD. The word classics is also used to refer to the literature of the period.

Branches of classical studies

See main article: Ancient Greece.

Culture of Ancient Greece
Culture of Ancient Rome
Culture of Ancient Mediterranean

Subdisciplines of classical studies

- - Classical archaeology Classical art
    - - Art in ancient Greece Roman art
        Classical architecture Architecture of Ancient Greece Roman architecture
      - Numismatics Classical history Bronze Age
- Classical Antiquity
- Classical society
  - - - Ancient Greek society Roman society Classical religion
  - Religion in ancient Greece
  - Greek mythology
  - Religion in Ancient Rome
  - Roman mythology
  - Classical philology Classical language
    - - Ancient Greek Classical Latin
        Classical literature Theatre of Ancient Greece Theatre of Ancient Rome
  - Classical Textual criticism Classical philosophy
- Greek philosophy
- Ancient philosophy
Classical science and technology
Palaeography

History of classical studies

History of the western classics (Not to be confused with classical history (see below))

Literae Humaniores

General classical studies concepts

Classical archaeology

Late Helladic period

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Seven Wonders of the Ancient WorldThe Greek category was not "Wonders" but "theamata", which translates closer to "must-sees". The list that we know today was compiled in the Middle Ages—by which time many of the sites were no longer in existence:

Great Pyramid of Giza (the only wonder of the Ancient World still in existence)
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria

Classical art

See also Ancient art

Art in Ancient Greece

Roman art

Classical architecture

Ancient Greek architecture

Architecture of Ancient Greece

Roman architecture

Geography of the classical period

Geography at the time of Ancient Greece

Aegean Sea
Alexandria
Athens
- Antioch Corinth
  - - Delphi Hellespont Macedon Miletus
- Olympia Pergamon
  - Sparta Thermopylae Troy

Geography at the time of Ancient Rome

Roman provinces 120 AD

Classical history

Classical Greek history

See main article: Ancient Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Roman Greece and Timeline of ancient Greece.

Ancient Greek society

Classical Roman history

Roman era

Military history of Ancient Rome

Military history of ancient Rome

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Structural history of the Roman military -
Technological history of the Roman military -
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Roman society

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Cursus honorum -
Roman Emperor -
- List of Roman Emperors -
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Roman gardens -
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Classical Egyptian history

Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (21st to 25th Dynasties; 11th to 7th centuries BC)
Late Period of ancient Egypt (26th to 31st Dynasties; 7th century BC to 332 BC)
- History of Persian Egypt (525 BC to 332 BC) - see also Achaemenid Empire
Greco-Roman Egypt (332 BC to 642 AD)
- Hellenistic Egypt (332 BC to 30 BC)
  - Macedonian Kings (332 BC to 305 BC)
  - Ptolemaic Kingdom (305 BC to 30 BC)
- Egypt (Roman province) (30 BC to 642 AD)