Classics

In its classic sense, "classics", when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of ancient Greece and Rome. As a plural noun "classics" are books written in ancient Greece and Rome.

• Ancient Greece

Greek language

Greek mythology

Greek literature

Greek architecture

• Ancient Rome

Latin

Roman mythology

Latin literature

Rhetoric

• Post-Classical Scholarship

Humanism

Philology

Classics can also mean (typically in non-academic contexts) classic books.

====References===

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Classics" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics July 17, 2003