Classics outside classics 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 Ottos 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