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A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught in School
by
Caroline Taggart (Goodreads Author)
How many times have you wished that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A Classical Education provides all of these classical facts that modern schooling leaves o...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
June 11th 2009
by Michael O'Mara Books
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quite entertaining to read, it's like rekindling greek stuffs that I have long forgotten due to excessive math equations that stumble my table. Anyhow, I don't suggest this book for everybody. Like literally. Not every reader would enjoy this especially the ones who easily get bored with encountering hard to memorize names and such
A long list of Greek and Roman names that are hard to pronounce and not much guidance is given making some sections quite heavy going. The stories are told in a humorous way which is its saving grace, but don't expect to be educated that much.
It's a pleasant surprise how aptly (though a tad casually) and succinctly how much of the Classics can be conveyed in such a little book.
A thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours. A lot of interesting tidbits of history, mythology and anecdotes that have an impact even today.
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It's educational, it's accessible--in that you don't need a degree to understand the concepts therein--and it has some fabulous humour in it. What's not to love about this book? What I got most from this book is that classical studies doesnt' have to be dry and laborious. In fact the way Caroline Taggart writes about it, it's anything but. I defy anyone with even a passing interest in Greek or Roman literature, history, mythology or art not to like this book. Well worth reading--a book that's di...more
Nice brief run throu of various bits of the classics. Suprised myself with the extent to which the material was familiar.
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I was an editor for 30 years before Michael O’Mara Books asked me to write what became I Used to Know That. I think its success took everyone by surprise – it certainly did me –but it led to my writing a lot of other books and finally, after about three years, feeling able to tell people I was an author. It's a nice feeling.
The book I'm most proud of is my latest, The Book of London Place Names (...more
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