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Loading... Classical Considerations: Useful Wisdom from Greece And Romeby Marie Carducci Bolchazy
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book is a collection of quotations from authors writing in Latin and Greek, along with modern authors' comments. I'm not sure I'm impressed; it's a beautifully laid out book, but the illustrations aren't great and seem irrelevant, and we have 54 quotations in a fairly expensive package. Several commentaries are also very specific to today's US (and invariably from a liberal perspective), which seems a very narrow view for the title and contents. no reviews | add a review
The ancients knew that wisdom comes from sharing ideas with each other and with those who have gone before. This book is such a sharing: 53 quotations from ancient Greek and Latin authors, with English translations and accompanied by a brief essay, poem, or explanation of context. Contributors to Classical Considerations are a richly diverse group: classicists, reporters, students, professors, teachers, a psychiatrist, a judge, Vietnam veterans, a publisher, a minister, and a football coach. They show how the words of the ancients have connected with their own understandings of the world. Themes considered include fate, character, art, war, redemption after suffering, and time. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)089.81Information Anthologies and Quotations Anthologies in other languages Greek-LanguageLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |