Tag: Classics

Classics Why It Matters


Free Download Neville Morley, "Classics: Why It Matters"
English | ISBN: 1509517936 | 2018 | 140 pages | EPUB | 760 KB
For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, produced more cultivated, creative individuals; Greece and Rome were seen as pinnacles of civilization, and the origins of western superiority over the rest of the world.

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Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge Curriculum, Culture and Community


Free Download Chris Stray, "Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge: Curriculum, Culture and Community"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0906014239 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 4.7 mb
Eight essays from a Cambridge seminar held in 1996. Contributors are: Christopher Stray (The First Century of the Classical Tripos, 1822-1922); Robert Todd (Henry Sidgwick and the Study of Ancient Philosophy: The Decisive Years 1866-69); Pat Easterling (The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play); Claire Breay (Women and the Classical Tripos 1869-1914); Judith Raphaely (Nothing but gibberish and shibboleths: the compulsory Greek debates 1870-1919); Mary Beard (The Invention of ‘Group D’: An Archaeology of the Classical Tripos 1879-1984); David Gill (Winifred Lamb and the Fitzwilliam Museum); John Crook and Joyce Reynolds (The Cambridge Greek and Latin Book Club).

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HBR Classics Boxed Set (16 Books)


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English | 2017 | ISBN: 1633693120 | 520 Pages | EPUB (True) | 14 MB
The classic Harvard Business Review articles every manager and aspiring leader should read-and share with their teams-from such bestselling Harvard Business Review authors as Peter Drucker, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Jim Collins, Gary Hamel, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, and many more. Each compact book represents the most important ideas on management, leadership, and life. Build your professional library and advance your career with these 16 timeless business classics.

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War and Peace (Penguin Classics)


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Author/Translators: Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, Orlando Figes
Narrators: Chloe Pirrie, Sam Woolf, Michael Fox, Olivia Darnley, Terence Wilton
30/4/2020 | English | ASIN: B083KNXN64 | M4B & MP3@63 kbps | 2 GB | 67 hrs 13 mins | Unabridged | Retail

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Forward with Classics Classical Languages in Schools and Communities


Free Download Arlene Holmes-Henderson, "Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities"
English | ISBN: 1474295959 | 2018 | 296 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Despite their removal from England’s National Curriculum in 1988, and claims of elitism, Latin and Greek are increasingly re-entering the ‘mainstream’ educational arena. Since 2012, there have been more students in state-maintained schools in England studying classical subjects than in independent schools, and the number of schools offering Classics continues to rise in the state-maintained sector. The teaching and learning of Latin and Greek is not, however, confined to the classroom: community-based learning for adults and children is facilitated in newly established regional Classics hubs in evenings and at weekends, in universities as part of outreach, and even in parks and in prisons.

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Classics and Media Theory


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English | 2020 | pages: 379 | ISBN: 0198846029 | PDF | 25,0 mb
Introducing a largely neglected area of existing interactions between Greco-Roman antiquity and media theory, this volume addresses the question of why interactions in this area matter and how they might be developed further. It aims not only to promote awareness of the presence of the classics in media theory but also to encourage more media attentiveness among scholars of Greece and Rome. By bringing together an international team of scholars with interdisciplinary expertise in areas ranging from classical literature and classical reception studies to art history, media theory and media history, film studies, philosophy, and cultural studies, the volume as a whole engages with numerous aspects of ‘classical’ Greece and Rome revolving around issues of philosophy, cultural history, literature, aesthetics, and epistemology. Each chapter provides its own definition of what constitutes mediality and how it operates, constructs different genealogies of the concept of the medium, and

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