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Dear Class,

Here is the Google Books version of the Marrou text for this week.  It is unfortunately incomplete, but read as much as you can of it.

Use this link, and scroll down to page 229

A History of Education in Antiquity

Also, here is Plutarch’s life of Cicero

plutarchs-life-of-cicero

And Demosthenes

plutarchs-life-of-demosthenes

In your imitation of Plutarch’s biographical style for this week, be guided by his characteristic statement at the beginning of his Life of Alexander:

For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles when thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. Accordingly, just as painters get the likenesses in their portraits from the face and the expression of the eyes, wherein the character shows itself, but make very little account of the other parts of the body, so I must be permitted to devote myself rather to the signs of the soul in men, and by means of these to portray the life of each, leaving to others the description of their great contests.

Dear Class,

First, here’s an interesting article, very germane to our most recent class.

The Rhetoric of an Excellent Essay

Now, for this week’s assignment:

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roche-la-ch-1

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Regarding the Bonner text mentioned on the syllabus, I will try to put that up later this week.

Take care

**Dear Class**

I’m so sorry not to have put this out sooner.  If you can, read something of this for tomorrow.  If not by tomorrow, read it whenever you get a chance.  It’s a very valuable text, and not easy to come by.

**Copy and Paste**

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B21Gr3XmDEPZNnFVek02ZC1wbnM/view?usp=sharing

classical-christian-education

What College Was, Is, and Should Be: delbanco-college-pdf

**Dear Class**

Here is the link for this week’s readings.  It is the text of Valerie Warrior’s “Roman Religion: A Sourcebook”

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M7_4fChm6Gyp8F2K4EnpYI1s8Xk4lH0d

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any issues, technological or otherwise.

Here, also, is the first PowerPoint:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eddEHfZLV2dxboI2yde8TUeld650ht-l

Notes for the first lecture:

lecture-one-notes

And syllabus

pagans-and-christians-syllabus

**Dear Class**

Here is the PDF for this week’s reading.

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Callimachus Hymn to Zeus

Prometheus Bound : Aeschylus

Online text

A helpful introduction: Prometheus Bound