What is Classics?
A Classical scholar is most likely to be trained in these ancient languages.
What are Greek and Latin.
The earliest practitioners of so-called Classical Archaeology would now be identified most closely with this academic discipline.
What is art history?
The main difference between a primary and secondary source within Classics is based on this characteristic of a text.
What is whether its author lived in the ancient world?
Textbooks may be categorized as this type of text because their aim is to educate people.
What is didactic?
What are papyrus scrolls?
An alternative definition of Classics might replace the term "Greco-Roman" with the name of this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
In the University of Toronto's department of Classics, most faculty members are categorized as practitioners of ancient history, philosophy, or this.
What is philology?
In the context of the study of ancient manuscripts, the main responsibility of an editor of a Classical text is this.
What is sorting between different versions of the same text to arrive at the most likely original version?
When you cite a secondary source in a research paper, you usually include these three pieces of information.
What are last name, date, and page number?
What is translation?
A 19th century Classical scholar would spend almost all of their time working closely with these materials.
What are Greek and Latin literary sources?
The wider discipline of this subfield within Classics still wrestles the same fundamental questions as the ancient authors did.
What is Philosophy?
The majority of surviving, complete manuscripts of Greek and Latin texts from the ancient world come from this range of centuries.
What is the 10th to 16th centuries CE?
The following quote is most likely from which category of secondary source:
The generals took turns chairing the committee for a day each, a recipe for indecision and disaster, but at this critical moment one of the ten, Miltiades (mil-ti-a-dez), took charge. On his advice Athens’ 9,000 hoplites grabbed whatever food they had and headed straight for Marathon.
What is a textbook?
Our earliest epigraphic evidence from the Greco-Roman world is written not on stone but on this material.
What is clay?
The decision to pursue a particular line of research in the humanities often arises from an experience of this human emotion upon learning something.
What is fascination/wonder/awe?
Although we divide the study of literature and history, such distinctions of genre do not always map neatly onto ancient texts, as becomes clear in this Greek historian's narrative of the Battle of Marathon.
Who is Herodotus?
A student citing the ancient Homeric epics (the Iliad and Odyssey) should not cite page numbers, but instead provide a reference to this.
What is a book and line number?
Academic books and articles are usually argumentative in nature because their general aim is to do this.
What is to present a novel contribution to the field?
This term refers to medieval or early modern comments or side notes written in a manuscript by a copyist.
What are scholia?
What is the Renaissance?
This influential scholar of Classical Archaeology used techniques from the study of Renaissance Art to identify hands in Athenian vase paintings.
Who is Sir John Beazley?
Ancient epigraphic texts are published in large standardized collections; this is the main collection for Greek inscriptions.
What is the Inscriptions Graecae?
This is the main difference between academic non-fiction writing and public-facing non-fiction writing.
What is its formality of language and tone?
This series of Classical Texts provides facing Greek/Latin and English translations and can be accessed for free online via your U of T library account.
What are the Loeb editions?