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  • Vital Remnants: America's Founding and the Western Tradition by Gary L Gregg
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    An anthology of essays on the Founding in its Western intellectual context. George Carey writes: "These splendid essays illuminate significant dimensions of the foundations on which our republic was formed;dimensions that have been all but erased over the course of…

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  • Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering A Tradition Can Improve Our Schools (with a Curriculum for Today's Students) by Robert E. Proctor
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    Defining the Humanities traces the history of the tradition of the liberal arts, from the origin of the term by Cicero (studii humanitatis), through Petrarca and the Italian Renaissance, to the American founding.

  • Bonfire of the humanities: rescuing the classics in an impoverished age by Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath and Bruce S. Thornton
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    With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline-classics-and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point…

  • The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition by E. Christian Kopff
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    The Devil Knows Latin is a provocative and illuminating examination of contemporary American culture. Its range is broad and fascinating. Whether discussing the importance of Greek and Latin syntax to our society, examining current trends in literary theory, education, and…

  • Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin by Tracy Lee Simmons
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    Simmons first sketches the development of educational practice in the schools of the classical and Renaissance eras. He then presents a lively narrative of the fortunes of classical learning in the modern age, including accounts of the classical tongues' influence…

  • A Student's Guide to Classics by Bruce S. Thornton
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    Bruce Thornton's crisp and informative Student's Guide to Classics provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of suggested…

Course level: 100
  • The Classical Roots of American Culture
    by David Pollio
    Course Description Classical Greece and Rome have had a profound influence on many aspects of western civilization, in general, and American culture, in particular. From the time of the first European settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts through the early national period and…
Course level: Unknown
  • The Greek City
    by Paul Rahe
    The following books are available at the bookstore and should be purchased by every student enrolled in this course: Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes' Clouds, ed. and tr. Thomas G. West…

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