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What's Classics?
hardpressed
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Someone told me their daughter is studying Classics, didn't want to show my ignorance by asking what that means, can someone tell me please?
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Its to do with the classical ages.
http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupRenderCustomPage.asp?GroupID=5296&ResourceId=61738
Thats the school site of a school opposite my old school, all girls and they do classics. The above page basically explains a bit abut it but I think its just studying a bit of Ancient Greece.0 -
It's all about studying Ancient Greece and Rome, the languages, mythologies, cultures, art, all that jazz.0
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latin too i think0
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Ancient languages - namely Latin and ancient Greek - and all the mythology and culture that went with them I guess.
I studied Latin at school, taught me more about the English language, spelling and grammar than studying English ever did.0 -
dunno, it's all greek to me!0
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ringo_24601 wrote: »dunno, it's all greek to me!
ho ho ho :cool:0 -
I studied classics!
,,,, it was mainly the study of ancient greece & rome, it covered mythical stories like Jason and the golden fleece, Zeus and pandoras box.... interesting but slightly pointless unless you plan to study "classics" at a higher level. "Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone, and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering"0 -
merlinormartin wrote: »I studied classics! ,,,, it was mainly the study of ancient greece & rome, it covered mythical stories like Jason and the golden fleece, Zeus and pandoras box.... interesting but slightly pointless unless you plan to study "classics" at a higher level.
This was the traditional training for the officials who ran the British empire.0
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