Gail Holst-Warhaft is adjunct associate professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University. David R. McCann is Korean Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The Wake of the Greek Classical MomentChapter 3 "They Requested Him as God of Their City": A Classical Moment in the Mesopotamian ExperienceChapter 4 The Classical Moment in India: The Grammar of Discrimination in KalidasaChapter 5 The Classical Moment in ChinaChapter 6 Unstating the Classical Moment: The Logic of Forms and Forces in Heian JapanChapter 7 Performing Dragons: The Construction of a Korean Classical MomentChapter 8 In Search of Vietnamese Classical MomentsChapter 9 About the ContributorsChapter 10 Index