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(0)Charlotte Higgins
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"What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome's northernmost territory and how it has changed since the years after the empire fell....
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"Who wouldn't want Ms Higgins as their Latin mistress? From a deep acquaintance with both Roman poets…and television soaps…she has worked out "how to get laid, Roman-style." - The Times (London)
"Engaging, and sometimes very funny. . . . Hilarious." - The Guardian
"Latin Love Lessons is written with a light touch and a sense of humour that make it a delight to read. It's as useful to an A-level Latin scholar as it is to anyone who has ever fallen...
3) It's All Greek To Me: From Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, How Ancient Greece Has Shaped Our World
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Why is ancient Greece important? Because, quite simply, if we want to understand the modern Western world, we need to look back to the Greeks. Consider the way we think about ethics, about the nature of beauty and truth, about our place in the universe, about our mortality. All this we have learned from the ancient Greeks. They molded the basic disciplines and genres in which we still organize thought, from poetry to drama, from medicine to philosophy,...