Mar 01 2025 60 mins 7
Classical education has declined and fallen before - as the Roman Empire succumbed to internal weakness and external threats, so did its bilingual educational regime. Humanists in the Renaissance revived the ancient world's Greek and Latin literary paideia, or at least created a new system of education modelled on it, which flourished for centuries, well into the modern era. But it fell apart once again after the catastrophe of the First World War. In Chapter Two of Climbing Parnassus, Tracy Lee Simmons give an account of classical education's many lives.
Tracy Lee Simmons' Climbing Parnassus: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781933859507
Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674991743
John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780268011505
Micah Meadowcroft's Classical Education's Aristocracy of Anyone: https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/classical-educations-aristocracy-of-anyone
David Sider's Greek Verse on a Vase by Douris: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/41012854.pdf
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Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
