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Wikiproject Classical Greece and Rome

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Welcome! This is the homepage of a group of Wikipedians interested in writing about the classical world. We aim to make excellent all articles relating to classical Greece and ancient Rome by:

  • Coordinating improvements to classics articles among Wikipedia editors
  • Providing an area for discussing classics and classics articles
  • Collating resources on writing classics articles

New members are always welcome; you can join at the recruitment page. If you require a project member's help with a matter of article content, please ask on the talk page. If you aren't sure how to help us improve classics coverage on Wikipedia, read on!

Featured articles

Archimedes  · Augustus  · Diocletianic Persecution  · Hoxne Hoard  · Isis  · Retiarius

Good articles

Alexander the Great  · Aphrodite  · Battle of Marathon  · Battle of Salamis  · Battle of Thermopylae  · Berenice (daughter of Herod Agrippa I)  · Caligula  · Catalogue of Women  · Clement of Alexandria  · Constantine the Great  · Cynicism  · Deva Victrix  · Getty Villa  · Indo-Roman trade and relations  · Justinian I  · Law School of Beirut  · Mount Vesuvius  · Parthenon Frieze  · Philomela  · Roman Empire  · Second Persian invasion of Greece  · Sophocles  · Stoicism  · Themistocles  · Velites  · Vindolanda tablets

Recent Did you know? entries

Lychnapsia  · Bulla Felix  · aerarium militare  · Languages of the Roman Empire  · Rosalia (festival)  · The Labourers of Herakles  · The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus  · Gold glass  · Camuliana  · College of Aesculapius and Hygia  · Treasures of Ancient Rome  · Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 282  · Peiraikos  · Philippeioi  · Great Colonnade at Apamea  · Great Colonnade at Palmyra  · Harbaqa Dam  · Roman Theatre at Apamea  · Volubilis  · Achilles on Skyros  · St Albans Hoard  · Carteia  · Market Gate of Miletus  · Temples of Mount Hermon  · Blacas Cameo  · Lekythion

Formerly recognised content

Mark Antony  · Aristotle  · Aeschylus  · Atlantis  · Battle of Cannae  · Hippocrates  · Julius Caesar  · Pericles  · Plato  · Third Servile War

All Classics recognised content is listed here.

Collaboration of the Month

The Theatre of Pompey.

The Theatre of Pompey (Latin: Theatrum Pompeium, Italian: Teatro di Pompeo) was a structure in Ancient Rome built during the later part of the Roman Republic. It was constructed in seven years from 55 BC, and was dedicated early in 52 BC before the structure was fully completed. The theatre was one of the first permanent (non-wooden) theatres in Rome. The building itself was a part of a multi-use complex that included a large quadriporticus directly behind the Scaenae frons. Inclosed by the large columned porticos was an expansive garden complex of fountains and statues. Along the stretch of covered arcade were rooms dedicated to the exposition of art and other works collected by Pompey Magnus during his campaigns.

On the opposite end of the garden complex was a curia for political meetings. The senate would often use this building along with a number of temples and halls that satisfied the requirements for them to formally meet. This is infamous as the place of Julius Caesar's murder by the Liberatores of the Roman Senate and elite.

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  • Supporting other projects, groups, and editors who are striving to achieve the same goals.

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  • Cyclops (play) needs some significant attention. Please have a look at Talk:Cyclops (play) for an explanation. I'm focused on another article right now, so any help or expertise you have would be appreciated. Imaginestigers (talk) 15:17, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ancient pagan writers on Christianity: I have recently looked over the articles Tacitus on Jesus and Pliny the Younger on Christians, and I would like to have an outside view on them. The same holds for Josephus on Jesus and Suetonius on Christians, it's just that I haven't looked at them in detail yet. I am concerned that some of the things they say might be (more or less subtle) POV pushing, either pro-Christian or anti-Christian or more likely a wild mixture of these. I presume you who are reading this are more interested in Classical Greece and Rome than in Christian history, and I think this is exactly what these articles need now. Possible tasks include:
    • Identify potential POV and fringe opinions, if present;
    • Provide your judgment on what the scholarly consensus is (for example regarding authenticity of these passages);
    • Add information on other aspects, such as the role of these passages in the work of the respective writers, their religious background (what do they mean by superstitio?),... --Corneille pensive (talk) 15:07, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • New requested article on A. B. Bosworth, an Australian classicist (d. 2014), who is still one of the most important authors on Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World. —Brigade Piron (talk) 12:07, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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  • 02 Jan 2025 – Democrates (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Twozenhauer (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
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15lsoucy (talk) (Know some mythology; create pages on Roman Consuls; learning Latin)
Anvituteja (talk) (Greek Mythology - deities, heroes; Roman Mythology - deities, places, heroes; learning Latin)
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Aldux (talk)
Alektor89 (talk) (currently finishing my M.Ed. in Latin Philology/History and studying Greek Philology)
Amadscientist (talk)
Amahoney (talk) (I teach classics and work on linguistics and poetics)
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Andonic (talk)
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Belshay (talk) Roman archaeology
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BinaryLust (talk)
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Brigade Piron (talk) (Bosporan Kingdom, more mainstream Rome/Greece too)
Byblios (talk)
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Caeciliusinhorto (talk) (Women in archaic and classical Greece)
CanonLawJunkie (talk) (Love ancient empires)
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Carlstak (talk) (Interested in all aspects of Classical Greece and Rome)
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CharlesViBritannia (talk) Ancient Greek and Roman mythology
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Ronnlund (talk) (PhD in Classical Archaeology, mostly interested in the archaeology of Greece)
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Sancinitoj (talk) (PhD Ancient History, mostly Roman imperial history, fluent Latin and Greek)
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SteveMooreSmith3 (talk) (Added several articles including Battle of the Uxian Defile, major contributions Battle of Jaxartes, Siege of Gaza)
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Classical Greece and Rome articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
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FA 7 9 32 45 93
FL 1 1 2 4
A 2 8 11 21
GA 19 33 109 179 5 345
B 67 102 434 540 139 1,282
C 71 177 744 1,681 232 2,905
Start 13 98 1,520 7,168 356 9,155
Stub 1 330 7,994 1 366 8,692
List 2 23 119 1,243 25 119 1,531
Category 4,417 4,417
Disambig 248 248
File 67 67
Portal 4 4
Project 8 8
Template 303 303
NA 8 66 493 545 1,112
Other 12 12
Assessed 180 453 3,363 19,356 5,630 1,217 30,199
Unassessed 2 48 1 252 303
Total 180 453 3,365 19,404 5,631 1,469 30,502
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 114,103 Ω = 5.07
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