Ancient Greek and Roman culture might sometimes appear to be the preserve of a privileged elite. This is because it used to play a crucial role in social division. But this is not the whole story. The culture we all equally inherit from the ancient Greek and Roman past may seem to be cordoned off by such boundaries as the knowledge of unspoken languages, but these boundaries and others like them have consistently been overcome by an enthusiasm for the classical world that transcends social division. Our archive of class-conscious classical encounters stands as testament to this.
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Pierce Egan: The Plutarch of Boxing
1812 Buy product -
William Cameron: Hawking the Classics
1830 Buy product -
Sid Chaplin: Writing in the Dark
1940 Buy product -
Guy Aldred: The Anarchist Prometheus
1904 Buy product -
Thomas Hardy and Stephen’s Shaky Latin
1873 Buy product -
Osborne Ward’s Ancient Working People
1887 Buy product -
The Farm Boy’s Draughts: Richard Porson
1800 Buy product -
Andrew Donaldson: The Dangers of Greek
1750 Buy product -
Ben Tillet: Classics on the Docks
1887 Buy product -
Francis Williams: The Jamaican Horace
1756 Buy product -
John Bull and the Elgin Marbles
1816 Buy product