Classics as an academic discipline appears to belong to the lecture hall
and the seminar. But Classics is alive outside Classics, as the studies
collected in this volume show. We engage with Classics in the 19th
century through the hymn "Gaudeamus Igitur" and a popular song on Herman
the German, we meet Classics in the Early Modern school, in the 19th
century celebrating the Olympics in King Otto's Greece, and identifying
the gorilla, and in the 20th century invention of Spartacus as a
Bulgarian. We encounter frauds, hoaxes, and the lexicographical
tradition, by looking at two works fraudulently ascribed to a Byzantine
author, at a joke presented as a New Testament "agraphon", at the
lexicographical invention of Euboean Cyme, and at the tradition of
poking fun at lexica in lexica themselves. We learn about classicists
ousted from Classics through the lives of Richard Laqueur and Victor
Ehrenberg, and we engage with two publications which were highly
influential in popularizing Classics: Falke's cultural history of Greece
and Rome, and Asterix. The volume thus presents fourteen studies on
Classics outside Classics.