Classical in its strictest sense means "Greek and Roman" but the "classical world" has come to include not only Greece and Italy but Egypt, the Bible lands, Ethiopia, Assyria, Babylon and Persia: all the civilizations, in fact, which flourished between 3000 BC and the fifth century AD and which at one time or another came into contact with the Greeks, or fell under the sway of the Roman Empire. This book shows the costume of all these early peoples. - Introduction.