History of Teaching Classics
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A Brief History of “Great Books”
Talia Boylan If you find yourself tasked with teaching a Great Books class (and if you have a Classics PhD, the odds that this will happen at some point in your career are relatively high), you might find yourself wondering where the idea for such a class came from in the first instance. The following…
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A Brief History of Teaching Ancient Greek and Latin (Draft)
James F. Patterson A teacher should know not just how a topic is taught but why the topic is taught that way. It is therefore worth learning a bit about the history of teaching Ancient Greek (hereafter simply Greek unless otherwise qualified) and Latin. A classics scholar should find this unsurprising. Arguments today about the…
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