The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury - and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee Pearcy chronicles how this came to be.
The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury - and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee Pearcy chronicles how this came to be.
Lee T. Pearcy is the Director of Curriculum and Lounsbery Chair in Classics at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania. Pearcy has authored or coauthored The Homeric Hymn to Apollo (1981), Mediated Muse (1984), The Shorter Homeric Hymns (1989), New First Steps in Latin (1999), New Second Steps in Latin (2001), and New Third Steps in Latin (2003).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Foreword 2. 1. The Grammar of Our Civility 3. 2. The American Dialect 4. 3. Finis: Four Arguments against Classics 5. 4. Prolegomena to a Pragmatic Classicism 6. Notes 7. Works Cited 8. Index
1. Foreword 2. 1. The Grammar of Our Civility 3. 2. The American Dialect 4. 3. Finis: Four Arguments against Classics 5. 4. Prolegomena to a Pragmatic Classicism 6. Notes 7. Works Cited 8. Index
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