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 Classical scholar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Classics, particularly within the Western Universitytradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the timeframe known as classical antiquity.
Classical education was considered the best training for implanting the life of moral excellence arete (paideia) hence a good citizen.
Classical studies formed the basisfor a liberal arts education and were considered necessary for the advancement and preservation of a country's liberty andWestern culture.
www.therfcc.org /classical-scholar-104695.html   (602 words)

  
 William Young Sellar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Graduating with a first-class in classics, he was elected fellow of Oriel, and, after holding assistant professorships at Durham, Glasgow and St Andrews, was appointed professor of Greek at St Andrews (1857).
Sellar was one of the most brilliant of modern classical scholars, and was remarkably successful in his endeavours to reproduce the spirit rather than the letter of Roman literature.
His chief works, The Roman Poets of the Republic (3rd ed., 1889) and The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age (Virgil, 3rd ed., 1897), and Thrace and the Elegiac Poets (2nd ed., by WP Ker, 1899), with memoir by Andrew Lang, are standard authorities.
www.wikiverse.org /william-young-sellar   (215 words)

  
 Print: The Chronicle: 11/14/2003: Casaubon vs. Casaubon: Scholarship on Scholarship
The book charts a decline from the idea of the scholar as a sort of secular magician, imbued with the power to discern truth, to a view of him as an irrelevant fool, lost in labyrinths of arcane trivia.
He was a Renaissance classical scholar of great intellectual heft -- and also, as it happens, the subject of a biography by Pattison.
Nuttall takes seriously the defense of classical exegesis, and, more broadly, of knowledge for its own sake, that is embedded in the play, a defense that tends to be overlooked when The Invention of Love is read simply as a tragic tale of a blighted and sublimated love.
www.chronicle.com /cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i12/12b01001.htm   (1233 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Johann Georg Baiter
Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch (June 17, 1784 - February 25, 1860), was a German classical scholar and educationist.
Johann Caspar von Orelli (February 13, 1787 - January 6, 1849), was a Swiss classical scholar.
Karl Felix Halm (April 5, 1809 - October 5, 1882), was a German classical scholar and critic.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Johann-Georg-Baiter   (832 words)

  
 Tanneguy Lefebvre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tanneguy Lefebvre (Tanaquillus Faber) (1615 - September 12 1672) was a French classical scholar.
After completing his studies in Paris he was appointed by Cardinal Richelieu inspector of the printing-press at the Louvre.
Lefebvre was a highly cultivated man and thorough classical scholar.
www.freeglossary.com /Tanneguy_Lefebvre   (324 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.09.16
Nevertheless, he argues that for two thousand years scholars and readers have been blind to Homeric influence on Mark's Gospel (7) because the evangelist wrote in prose, altered Homeric vocabulary, rearranged episodes from the epics, and also borrowed at will from a number of Jewish sources (6).
While we are told in Chapter 1 that Mark was "long on concealing, short on revealing" his debt to the Homeric epics (6), Chapter 22 emphasizes that Mark wanted his readers to recognize this extensive network of parallels and connections with the Homeric epics (170).
However, some biblical scholars may question the scenario according to which Matthew, Luke, and even John are imagined to have stripped from their own narratives various markers referring to the Odyssey, failing to understand their significance and function (216, n.46).
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-09-16.html   (2561 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Charterhouse School
Philip Charles Hardwick (1822-1892), son of architect Philip Hardwick, was the last architect in the family line and is reputed to have designed many of the finest banks in the City of London - Hardwick was architect to the Bank of England from 1855 to 1883.
George Burges (1786−January 11, 1864), was an English classical scholar born in India.
James Henry Monk (1784-1856), English divine and classical scholar, was born at Buntingford, Herts.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charterhouse-School   (2646 words)

  
 Christian Lobeck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Christian August Lobeck (June 5, 1781 - August 25, 1860), was a German classical scholar.
After studying at the universities of Jena and Leipzig, he became Privatdozent at the University of Wittenberg in 1802, and in 1810 was appointed to a professorship there.
Lobeck's edition of the Ajax of Sophocles (1809) had gained him a reputation a scholar and critic; his Phrynichus (1820) and Paralipomena grammaticae graecae (1837) reveal his wide acquaintance with Greek literature.
www.wikiverse.org /christian-lobeck   (214 words)

  
 classical optics - Definition and Meaning of classical optics
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 The First Christian Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As a German classical scholar remarked (I think in "Hermes") some years ago, the methods of Biblical criticism are coming to be a jest among philologists.
To the ordinary Classical scholar it seems almost a crime to place at wrong dates, and attribute to anonymous and fictitious authors, writings of the highest value as historical authorities and as works of literature.
The present work is an enlargement of a series of articles which were written for the most part in trains and hotels, among the excavations by the American scholars at Sardis and under the shadow of Lycaonian hills.
www.webminister.com /ramsay/rfc00p.shtml   (228 words)

  
 Anecdotage.com - people Porson anecdote.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The classical scholar Richard Porson (who, it was often said, would "sooner drin...
The noted classical scholar Richard Porson was once asked what he thought of the...
A young scholar once impetuously suggested that he and Porson collaborate.
www.anecdotage.com /browse.php?category=people&who=Porson   (92 words)

  
 James Frazer
British anthropologist, historian of religion and classical scholar, whose best-known study THE GOLDEN BOUGH: A STUDY IN COMPARATIVE RELIGION traced the evolution of human behavior, ancient and primitive myth, magic, religion, ritual, and taboo.
James Frazer was born in Glasgow, Scotland, into a pious middle-class family, as the eldest of four children of Daniel K. Frazer, a pharmacist, and Katherine (Brown) Frazer.
As a scholar Frazer started first with a translation and commentary of Pausanias, a Greek travel writer of the second century.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jfrazer.htm   (1052 words)

  
 Charles Burney (scholar)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Charles Burney D.D.) was an English classical scholar and clergyman.
This is a classic, hear the boy soprano Max Emanuel Cencic, this is a supreme quality collection of music which will bring peace and happiness to the soul.
Marina Piccinini is my favorite flautist--her musicality, tone, and technique is better than anybody else out there, and I only hope that more people will learn about her....
www.freeglossary.com /Charles_Burney_(scholar)   (173 words)

  
 Casaubon, Isaac. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
), 1559–1614, English classical scholar and theologian, b.
Casaubon’s great works are his editions of the classics, particularly Athenaeus and the Characters of Theophrastus.
His diary, Ephemerides, was edited by his son, Florence Étienne Méric Casaubon, 1599–1671, who was also a classical scholar.
www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Casaubon.html   (167 words)

  
 Independent Publishers Group
This exhaustive exploration of the Hebrew myths and the book of Genesis resulted from a remarkable collaboration between one scholar raised as a strict Protestant and one raised as a strict Jew.
He was a poet, classical scholar, novelist, and critic.
Raphael Patai was an anthropologist, Jewish folklorist, and biblical scholar.
www.ipgbook.com /showbook.cfm?bookid=185754661X&userid=86611066   (152 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Special report: Obituaries
Prolific scholar and teacher whose works showed his mastery of literary criticism, history and culture.
The electrical engineer who greatly improved the diagnosis of tumours and cysts with the invention of the CAT scanner.
Levantine scholar and archaeologist who was keeper of the Ashmolean Museum for almost 20 years.
education.guardian.co.uk /obituary/0,12212,750027,00.html   (1235 words)

  
 Apollo
John Picus, Earl of Mirandola, an Italian philosopher and scholar of the Renaissance, died 1494.
Isaac Casaubon, Swiss classical scholar and theologian, died 1614.
Daniel Heinsius, Dutch scholar and author, died 1655.
www.sirbacon.org /apollo.htm   (696 words)

  
 A classical scholar's odyssey from slavery to academic renown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A classical scholar's odyssey from slavery to academic renown
In her talk "Pioneer African-American Classicist: The Path-Breaking Career of William Sanders Scarborough," Ronnick traced Scarborough's life from the early educational support he received from enlightened white slave owners in Macon to his university presidency and achievements as a researcher, author and teacher.
Racial controversy embroiled the school during an era when many prominent figures from both races thought a liberal arts education, and especially classical learning, was wasted on Blacks.
www.umich.edu /%7eurecord/0203/Feb17_03/04.shtml   (861 words)

  
 Afghanistan Pictures People Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1970, Peter Levi -- classical scholar, archaeologist, and poet -- set off with Bruce Chatwin in search of the classical heritage of Afghanistan.
This classic work, written prior to the Soviet invasion, is now reissued with fresh photographs from the Chatwin archives as well as a new introduction in which Peter Levi looks back on a bygone Afghanistan and on his friendship with the young Chatwin.
Peter Levi pursued an academic career as a classicist at Oxford and was later elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
www.yenra.com /afghanistan-pictures-people-travel   (236 words)

  
 Forum Romanum: Who we are   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Forum Romanum is a collaborative project among scholars, teachers, and students with the broad purpose of bringing classical literature out of college libraries and into a more accessible, online medium.
The centerpost of Forum Romanum is the Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum, a digital library covering the entire body of Latin literature, from the earliest epigraphic remains to the Neo-Latinists of the eighteenth century.
We also provide electronic editions of such classic secondary works as Johnston's Private Life of the Romans and Buck's Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian (in progress).
www.forumromanum.org /about.html   (179 words)

  
 Scholar Notebook Computer Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Indeed, every word of the text you are reading was written on the Scholar or its...
Researching a fresh shoulder is bitter statement, because it is scholar to refuse.
Scholar's Aid 2.5 If you are not using SA2.5, do not consult...
www.buy-notebooks.co.uk /30/laptops1486.html   (121 words)

  
 scholar - OneLook Dictionary Search
SCHOLAR : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
Phrases that include scholar: rhodes scholar, chinese scholar tree, classical scholar, an oxford scholar, apollodorus greek scholar, more...
Words similar to scholar: learner, student, savant, scholarly person, more...
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 Here Dead We Lie by A E Housman (listen online mp3) -- ASHING THE PENCIL
A E (Alfred Edward) Housman (1859 - 1936) poet and classical scholar wrote several poems during the first world war.
This one written in 1914 elequently and concisely spells out the tragedy of young men cut down before their time in WW1.
Heres the link to where you can listen online to this and many other classic and original poems set to music....
www.voy.com /95470/47.html   (314 words)

  
 Dangerous Archaeology
A Classical Scholar in the Near East: Francis Willey Kelsey
The significance of such interaction between the past and the present is of increasing concern to contemporary scholars who trace the history of disciplines to distinguish the roads taken from those not taken, and to question the validity of previously unassailable truths.
Museum presentations increasingly, on the one hand, explicate the nostalgia surrounding a given monument or culture and, on the other hand, chart the history of collecting, of art history, and of archaeology.
www.umich.edu /~kelseydb/Exhibits/DangerousArchaeology/MainDangerous.html   (746 words)

  
 Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90 December 23 in History
Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90 December 23 in History
Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
www.brainyhistory.com /events/1997/december_23_1997_175849.html   (50 words)

  
 Desiderius Erasmus - a biography from the landscape architecture and Gardens Guide
: The greatest classical scholar of the northern renaissance.
He broke away from monastic life, in the Augustian order, and became a wandering scholar, travelling between Holland, England, France and Switzerland.
The Oxford Companion to Gardens speaks of 'The Erasmian Garden' on the basis of the garden description in The Godly Feast (1522).
www.gardenvisit.com /b/erasmus.htm   (161 words)

  
 George Cole Bainbridge
Late in the 18th century he inherited even more land in Lincolnshire.
For once it couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke - William was an talented classical scholar, sportsman, and a well known amateur artist who exhibited from time to time at the Royal Academy.
Scrope's passions were deer-stalking and salmon fishing, and he wrote two outstanding books, 'The Art of Deerstalking,' and 'Days and Nights of Salmon-fishing in the Tweed,' which was published in 1843.
www.flyfishinghistory.com /scrope.htm   (220 words)

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