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Why We Study the Classics

Rudyard Kipling believed that a better appreciation of ancient Greece and Rome could help the English be less insular.

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Posted October 28 2024

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Art Appreciation

By Benjamin Robert Haydon

Some years before the Elgin marbles were put on display in the British Museum, rising artist Benjamin Haydon got a sneak preview.

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Posted August 6 2024

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Koré

By John Buchan

Sir Edward Leithen finds himself revising his opinion of the ‘detestable’ Koré Arabin.

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Posted December 19 2023

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Christ is Risen!

By Felicia Skene

Felicia Skene recalls the Easter celebrations on one emotionally-charged night in Athens

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Posted April 16 2023

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Treat Me Like a King!

By Flavius Arrianus

When Porus, the Indian king, surrendered to Alexander the Great at Jhelum, he had only one request to make of him.

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Posted June 25 2022

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The Grandest of All Sepulchres

By Thucydides

On the annual Remembrance Day of ancient Athens, Pericles rose to remind the people of the City that grief alone was not the best way to honour the fallen.

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Posted November 13 2021

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How I Met Nastenka The story-teller recalls his first meeting with Nastenka, and the man who brought them together.

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Columbus Arthur Clough marvels at the vision of a man who could cross the Atlantic without knowing there was a farther shore.

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Who’ll Turn the Grindstone? Whenever Charles Miner suspected an ulterior motive, he would say quietly ‘That man has an axe to grind!’

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Grammar Examine these sentences, and say whether the word ‘up’ should be removed.

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Ye Children, Hearken Unto Me David, fresh from another close encounter with Saul’s men, shares his advice for living a charmed life.

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Look Upon This Picture Hamlet cannot understand what his mother could possibly see in his uncle Claudius.

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Outbreak John Galsworthy shared his unease at the rise of two competing forms of national speech.

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The Peacock Throne The dazzling throne of the Mughal Emperors has vanished from history, but not before Abdul Hamid Lahori had seen it.

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