Early Greece to c. 500 BC
Sparta
Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC
The sophists, Socrates, and the fifth-century enlightenment
Fourth-century theory and practice: Isocrates, Plato, and Aristotle
The Hellenistic period (c. 335-30 BC)
Early Rome to c. 100 BC
Reading, writing, and literary study: late Roman Republic and Empire
Teaching and learning the liberal arts and rhetoric: Cicero to Quintilian
Pagans and Christians: from the second century AD to the end of Antiquity.