A Student’s Guide To The Classics, by Bruce S. Thornton
I must admit that while I am not fluent in Greek or Latin, I have long had a complex relationship with the classics as a body of literature. Without ever having attempted a systematic reading of the classics, I have managed to find myself reading a great many classic works and being influenced by them [1] a little bit at a time. Whether that means reading some of the works in school and some of them for fun and some of them as a reviewer of books for scholarly journals, I have read a great many of what the author considers to be essential classics, and I would hope that I have been bettered by it. This book, of course, is intended for those who are younger and who may not be familiar with the writings of the ancient world…
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