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	What's New - latest updates and changes on the site
	The Oracle of Loxias - questions answered on anything to do with the ancient world of Greece and Rome
	About Loxias - my credentials - and how to cite the Classics Pages in your work
	Search - find anything on the site with this powerful search engine
	Bookshop - buy Classics books (or anything) through Barnes & Noble or Amazon.
	Classics news - news and gossip from the world of Classics.
	Acknowledgments - what I've used in creating and developing this site.
	Email - contact me by email (your address is safe with me)
	Top 22 sites - my evolving personal selection of the best classical websites
	Letters - a small selection of the more entertaining emails I've dealt with
Entertainment
	Games & Quizzes - how to access all the games on the website: and the new "Really Hard Classics Quiz".
	Fun with Latin - games, puzzles and more, originally written for the Cambridge Latin course website.
	Words - derivations and etymology: entertaining words.
	Maths & Classics - a project showing how Maths is indebted to Classics. Numerals, Greek alphabet, calendar, golden section.
	Rude Latin - a selection of insulting terms used in Plautus' comedies
	Classic Cars - why do so many cars have pseudo-classical names?
	Legal Latin - the Latin that lawyers used to know!
	Sporting Quotes - sports writers can never resist airing their classical erudition.
	The uses of a Classical education - some of the famous and notorious who have had the benefit.
	Classical clichés - a list of tags for politicians and others who need to impress!
	The Great Books - who were North and Hillard?
Philosophy
	Plato's Republic - a reading guide to the Republic
Art
	Greek Pottery - pages on shapes, manufacture, decoration and use of Athenian vases.
	Sculpture - discussion of selected Greek sculpture
	Greek Architecture - how to study it in your home town.
Greek Mythology
	Guide to myths - where to find information about myths on the site.
Harry Potter
	Greek Harry Potter - news and updates about my ancient Greek translation. Published in October 2004.
	Greek - English Lexicon - vocabulary for Greek Harry Potter.
	Notes & Commentary - notes and commentary on the ancient Greek translation.
Greek Literature
	Iliad - introduction to the Iliad, and an interactive game to test your knowledge
	Odyssey - play the Odyssey Game as Odysseus, Penelope or Telemachus. Also: the truth about the Cyclops.
	Sappho - poet of fire from the island of Lesbos. Includes samples read in Greek.
	Aeschylus - discussion of important issues raised in Agamemnon.
	Oedipus - several pages discussing Sophocles' Oedipus, and its importance. Includes the challenging Oedipus Game.
	Antigone - pages examining the play, and an intriguing game.
	Euripides - my translations of Helen, Phoenissae and Orestes (performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
	Bacchae - discussion of the controversial drama, and a web game based on it.
	Medea - discussion of the play and its issues, and the Medea Game.
	Lysistrata - a light-hearted interactive game based on Aristophanes' notorious comedy.
	Aristophanes' Peace - Reading Guide, Production Notes, War & Peace
	Lucians 'True Story' - a translation of the first ever science fiction, by the Greek Douglas Adams.
	Greek Drama reviews - my assessment of productions I have seen.
The Romans
	The Romans - A complete website in its own right. Based on the best-selling book by Antony Kamm, The Romans is the complete introduction to Roman history, literaure, art and civilisation. Hundreds of illustrations, plus timelines and interactive quizzes.
Latin Literature
	Catullus - read - and listen to - two of Catullus' poems to Lesbia.
	Sulpicia - a Roman girl's voice
	Virgil - Translations, notes and commentary on selected books of the Aeneid. New translation of Book 1 Feb 2005
	Horace - the Pyrrha ode.
	Propertius - Cynthia.
	The Golden Ass - an illustrated re-telling of Apuleius' famous story
	Quintilian - some modern-sounding ideas form the great work on education
Social History
	Women - pages on women's status. Pages on women in myth - Atalanta, Cassandra, Echo, Diana, Pandora and more.
	The Symposium - drinking parties: men behaving badly
	Technology - the silver mines at Laurium
	Seapower - Trireme - the deadly Athenian warship - and why did they all have girls' names?
	Eros - aspects of Love.
	Olympic Games - fact and fiction about the ancient games.
	Oracles - How the ancient world tried to find answers to life, the universe and everything.
Archaeology & Travel
	Greece - the Athenian agora, Nemea, Sparta
	Sicily - a site within a site: a tour of Sicily and its wonders - natural, historical, artistic, gastronomic ...
Education
	Teachers' Pages - links to sites, software, organisations.

The Classics Pages are written and designed by Andrew Wilson
Comments, questions and contributions welcome.