1, SPQR – Mary Beard 2, Dynasty – Tom Holland 3, Augustus – Adrian Goldsworthy 4, The Ransom of the Soul – Peter Brown 5, Confronting the Classics – Mary Beard 6, Democracy – Alecos Papadatos 7, Introducing the Ancient Greeks – Edith Hall ...
Can’t find the book you are looking for? The Education Library holds many of theUKLA winners and shortlisted titles. When not on display these can be found with the rest of our Children’s Literature collection, just follow the ramp down from the Library Welcome Desk. ...
“Speaking for myself, the basic rule is that I am trying to get the candidate to show me how good they are,” says Mary Beard, professor of classics at Cambridge, fellow of Newnham College and presenter of the BBC series Meet the Romans. “I’m not trying to trip them up. What wo...
but because I believe his book is worthier of more remembrance than it seems to enjoy. I was reading it only the other day, and I found it delightful, and much better than I imagined when I accepted for the Atlantic the several papers which it is made up of. I am not sure but it...
Reading Classics “The upside of Lockdowns: Finally Time to Read ‘War and Peace'”. That was the title of a Wall Street Journal article published in early June. When I saw the article, I had indeed just finished reading “War and Peace” (for the first time) and continued onto anothe...
Aims of the CLC to teach comprehension of the Latin language for reading purposes; to develop an understanding of the history and culture of Roman civilisation; to encourage a wide range of approaches to language learning through the use of high quality audio-visual resources. ...
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5 But in a broader meaning, Jain manuscripts also mean manu-scripts of non-Jain works produced among Jains: the Cambridge collection has examples of śāstric works (grammar and science, for instance) and of commen-taries of Sanskrit classics written or copied by Jain monks which testify ...
In my earlier years, and out of a need for answers, I spent years reading classics, philosophy and books about eastern religion. Books that encouraged my flights of imagination were often about women explorers such as Alexandra David-Neel, Gertrude Bell and Freya Stark. I was looking for answ...
In my years of examining, I’ve either experienced first-hand or heard of a good few that will go down in the annals of time as absolute classics: the student who told the examiner there was a blue sheep in a photo (pronunciation fail – she meant ship); the Fastest Speller in the ...