Examines how the educations of America's first four presidents, and in particular their scholarly devotion to ancient Greek and Roman classics, informed the beliefs and ideals that shaped the nation's constitution and government.

This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations...

Interpretations of traditional stories about heroes, sorceresses, kings, gods, monsters, and other legendary Greek mythological characters.

Esta antología presenta una escogida muestra de poemas de los autores más representativos de los siglos XVI y XVII, pero también de algunos nombres que aun siendo menos conocidos no dejan por ello de tener calidad e interés

Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists, an academic with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience. Here, she draws on thirty years of teaching about Greek and Roman history to provide a panoramic portrait of the classical world that draws surprising parallels with contemporary society. We are taken on a guided tour of antiquity, encountering some of the most famous (and infamous) characters of classical history, among them...

In “Climbing Parnassus”, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin. He also shows how these languages have played a crucial role in the development of authentic Humanism, the foundation of the West's cultural order and America's understanding of itself as a union of citizens. Simmons's persuasive witness to the unique, now all-but-forgotten advantages of study in and of the classical languages...

Yuja Wang is the brilliant soloist in a piano concerto by a longtime friend of hers: Teddy Abrams, the music director of the Louisville Orchestra. The work is inspired by the strengths of American culture.