I START from a patent fact,—the widespread ignorance of classical literature on the part of persons who have received a classical education. It is not the scholarship of scholars that is here impugned ...

Classical Studies encompasses all the social, material, and intellectual culture of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, as they can be studied both in the original languages and in English. The ...

The traditional view of Shakespeare was that he knew very little about classical literature. Ben Jonson, his fellow playwright, famously wrote that his friend had "small Latin and less Greek." ...

THIS volume gives a general survey of the science of classical antiquity, laying special stress on the mathematical and physical aspects. It opens with an account of the Ionian natural philosophy, ...