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Dear Class,
Here are a few things to help you with your capstone papers, which are to be a synthesis of everything we have learned this semester, beginning with a concise description of education in the classical model (it’s focus on language, rhetoric and literature [the progymnasmata, for instance], its moral and aesthetic character, its supplementation by philosophy), then continuing with the adaptation of the classical curriculum by the early Church Fathers [both Greek and Latin, with specific examples], thence onward into the middle ages with Cassiodorus and the trivium/quadrivium, and ultimately into the Renaissance. I would end with some reflection about the current state of education in light of our last lecture and Victor Davis Hanson’s book, along with some of your own ideas about what the place of of the classics should be in education now. Feel free to incorporate some material from your previous essays.
Ecce!
Something I wanted to upload, but couldn’t, two weeks ago delbanco- what college is, was and should be
An article about using Quintilian’s methods in today’s classroom knoblauch-quintilian-today
Good material on and by the Sophists sourcebook-sophists
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Powerpoint the-departure-from-classical-Christian-education-in-modern-america
Powerpoint early-Christian-reception-of-classical-education-the Greek-Fathers
And a great article I just read: A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning
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Some good audiobooks, well-written and informative, if you want to delve deeper:
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World’s Greatest Empire
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Founders of the Western World: A History of Greece and Rome
The History of Rome, Volume 1, Books 1 – 5
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Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
The History of Rome, Volume 3: Books 21-25 (Livy on the Punic Wars)
Rome and the Mediterranean Vol. 1: The Histories (Polybius on what he calls the Hannabalic War)
Rome and the Mediterranean Vol. 2: The Histories
The History of Rome, Book 1: Roman Origins Before the Monarchy
The History of Rome, Book 2: From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy
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Notes lecture-five-rome-in-the-eastern-mediterranean
My recent article Full Text From Ὁμόνοια to Concordia
Thucydides The Peloponnesian War
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Powerpoint lecture-seven
Primary source for Marius and his war against Jugurtha The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Cataline
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy