''Classical World'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed academic journal
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published by
Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the
Classical Association of the Atlantic States. The journal focuses on scholarly works pertaining to Greek and Roman literature, history, traditions, as well as the history of classical scholarship. The
editors-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
are Robin Mitchell-Boyask (
Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then calle ...
) and
Lee T. Pearcy (
Bryn Mawr College
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)
In 1978, ''The Classical World'' published five books compilating past bibliographical articles which had appeared in past volumes. These books were on:
Greek drama
Ancient Greek theatre was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. The city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political, and religious place during this period, was its centre, where the theatre was ...
and
poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
; Greek and Roman history; philosophy, religion, and rhetoric;
Vergil
Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: t ...
; and
Roman drama and poetry and ancient fiction. ''The Classical World'' had published many such
review articles
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Abstracting and indexing
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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Current Contents
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History
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EBSCO databases
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International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
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MLA International Bibliography
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Scopus
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