Category: Classics
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The Histories – Herodotus
When I decided to give myself a classical education, one of the first works I decided to read is The Histories, by Herodotus. Where to begin when talking about Herodotus? To start, Herodotus invents the notion of writing down accounts of events and so this is the first book of history. His Histories are just…
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How To Listen To An Audiobook That Is 126 Hours And 31 Minutes Long
As a part of my goal to give myself a classical education, I decided I wanted to read The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. This work was published in 1789, and it covers the history of the Roman Empire and tries to explain all the ways in…
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Alexander The Great’s Speech in Greek!
Naturally, as I studied Ancient Greek history, I became obsessed for awhile with Alexander the Great, and read various books about him and the hellenistic age that he ushered in with his conquests. There is a video on YouTube of Alexander The Great giving a speech, and it’s in spoken Ancient Greek! I revisit the…
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A Classical Education
In 2020, I decided that I wanted to give myself a classical education. I had this feeling that a modern education was only enough education to get someone a modern job. Not an education for a person and their life as a whole. I wanted more. to know more. To understand more, on a deeper…
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