The mastery of Latin and ancient Greek—or at least enough of an acquaintance ... s successes are largely taken for granted. But the book still makes for gripping reading, as we trace the ...

Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner's "How Big things Get Done" stems from Flyvbjerg's work at Oxford university studying megaprojects. Elon Musk, Jimi Hendrix and the ancient Greek thinker Aristotle ...

THE first edition of this book was published forty years ago, and the author tells us that it is fully fifty since he began to write it. It is the work of ... on obscure Greek and Latin words.

Classics students spend most of their time reading Greek and Latin texts in the original languages, but they can also take courses in English translation in a variety of disciplines in order to get a ...

Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and Latin scholar and librettist Anne Carson is known for infusing classical philosophy with witty, ironic brilliance. With her 2001 book, The Beauty of the ...

Greek or Latin, and a subject that's traditionally been seen as elitist,” Wutrich said. “The new mood in classics is to try to be more open, more welcoming.” Students in Bening's Latin class work ...