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 Learning ancient Greek

The presence of classics in working-class culture, challenging its more usual role in the education of the ruling class, is inspiringly documented in “A people’s history of Classics” (2020), by Edith Hall and Henry Stead.   Sean Sheehan   It had been evoked earlier, in the opening scene of Brian […]

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Two kinds of treasure

At an obvious level, the distinction between fact and fiction is clear:  a story can be about factual truths or imaginative ones.      Sean Sheehan   Robert Lewis Stevenson’s “Treasure island” is a fictional story so there is no point in trying to get rich by searching through the […]