Classics
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For 482 years Rome was a Republic. But in 27 BC it all came toppling down. What happened? Why did such a long-standing from of government come to an end? Let's take a deep dive...
Sending these two Benz classics into retirement. 1984 200E & 1982 230E, both manual with sound systems & Air conditioning. Both cars function great and were properly serviced. See...
What is one book you consider essential reading for everyone? According to X, these are the 30 most essential: Philosophy: 1. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius 2. The Abolition of Ma...
25 more books that should be on every school curriculum but aren't: Fiction: 1. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 2. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. The Screwtape Letters...
25 books that should be on every school curriculum but aren't: Fiction: 1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky 2. 1984 - George Orwell 3. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 4. The...
Li Lu is a successful investor with a special interest for investing classics. His list of book recommendations is full of legendary classics of Investing and Valuation. Here ar...
Excerpts from (book, Germania - written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus (First century CE) (The Germanic peoples) — Geography & Physical Charac...
If every book caught on fire tomorrow, these are the only 10 you should rescue: (They'll change your life)
You know reading this thread, I think classicists ought to realize they're looking into the future if the field continues to shrink as it has been. We have, for our texts, a vast...
Seems more than 90% of these "hidden gems" were made in the last two decades only. Hotstar has a lot of Malayalam classics from the 70s and the 80s with subtitles. Definitely wort...
16 books you probably haven't heard of but should consider reading (and why): https://t.co/nKOBYEvcMa
The scholars of Classics and Medieval Studies who are most concerned with uprooting white supremacist assumptions in said fields seem to also share many of those same assumptions –...
I'll put it in Leo Strauss' words and then my own. In On Tyranny, LS says, "Socratic rhetoric is meant to be an indispensable instrument of philosophy. Its purpose is to lead pote...
111 Greatest Films Of All-Time Countdown 111. Big (1988) Penny Marshall directs this masterpiece about a kid who wants to grow up too fast. @tomhanks is brilliant throughout. Ro...
