Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College London, UK and is leader of a campaign to introduce Classical Civilisation and Ancient History qualifications across the UK state-school sector. She has published 30 books on ancient Greek and Roman civilisation and its continuing influence, and in 2015 was awarded the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy.

Henry Stead is Lecturer in Latin at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research project 'Brave New Classics' explores the relationship between the Greek and Roman classics and world communism. He is the author of A Cockney Catullus (2015), a translator of Latin poems and co-editor of Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform (2015).

Preface 1. Motives and Methods 2. The Invention of Classics 3. Working-Class Readers 4. 18th-Century Working-Class Poets 5. Classics and Class in Life-Writing 6. Working-Class Classics via the Visual Environment 7. Staging Class Struggle Classically 8. Dissenting Classics 9. Workers' Educational Classics 10. Classics & Class in Ireland 11. Scottish Working Classes 12. Caractacus and Lloyd-George's Recruiting Drive in Wales 13. Seditious Classicists 14. Underdog Professors 15. Ragged-Trousered Philologists 16. Hinterland Greek 17. Classical Underworlds 18. Class and the Classical Body 19. Gods and Heroes of the Proletariat 20. Shoemakers 21. Pottery Workers 22. Miners 23. Socialist and Communist Scholars 24. Soldiers: Dai and Diomedes on the Somme 25. Theatre Practitioners