The term “classical” is used for the literature of any language in a period notable for the excellent quality of its writers’ works. It is also a term used to note that something is pure, genuine and ...

I START from a patent fact,—the widespread ignorance of classical literature on the part of persons who have received a classical education. It is not the scholarship of scholars that is here impugned ...

People often take a look at the words on a page and give up. At first glance, classical books seem difficult and the language feels unfamiliar. However, each word goes deeper than its surface-level ...