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?
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?
If you visited an ancient library the 'books' on its shelves would be in this material format.
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.
This term is used to describe the categories into which we sort Ancient Greek and Latin texts based on their style, form, or content.
What are genres?
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?
This term refers to the interpretative and complex process of rendering words and meaning in an original language into a second language.
What is translation?
A 19th century Classical scholar would spend almost all of their time working closely with this kind of primary source.
What are Greek and Latin literary sources?
People who study this subfield within Classics still wrestle many of the same fundamental questions as the ancient authors did, although living several thousands of years later.
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?
Textbooks may be categorized as this type of resource, because their aim is to educate people.
What is a didactic?
This is what we call specialists who study ancient coins.
What is numismatist?
Most Greek and Latin literary texts come down to us through repeated copying on pre-industrial handbound books made from parchment and referred to by this term.
What is Codex?
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 about the Scythians.
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?
Humanists associated with this intellectual movement dated to the 15th and 16th centuries spent a great deal of time scouring early Monasteries for copies of classical works.
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?
Standard abbreviations for citing Classical texts used in most scholarly literature can be found in this online resource.
What is the Oxford Classical Dictionary?
The specialized technical vocabulary often used in theoretical arguments is often dismissed as this (which is not meant to be a complement).
What is Jargon?
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 Classical Library editions?