George LongleyOct 31, 20211 min readClassics and Transferable Skills part IV…Skill 3 - Critical Questioning and Reflection Logical reasoning and attention to detail are all important skills for critical...
George LongleyOct 31, 20212 min readClassics’ Transferable Skills part IIISkill 2. Attention to Detail and Patience Latin is logical. Logic requires attention to detail and careful concentration. We saw in the...
George LongleyOct 31, 20213 min readClassics and Transferable Skills, part IISkill 1 - Logical Reasoning I cannot remember where this happened or who said it (school, I think?), but it still makes me smile. I...
George LongleyOct 31, 20212 min readTransferable Skills and Classics, Part II should add that this is not a term I am particularly fond of. For me, it seems to standardise human learning and artificially separate...
George LongleyOct 31, 20212 min read‘Classics is elitist!’ 'Oh no it isn’t!’With panto season almost upon us, come Classics fans, 'Oh no it isn’t!’ There are several strands that have lead to this image. The...
George LongleyOct 29, 20213 min readWhy I studied Classics!Greetings, I'm the new kid on the blog. I began Latin in year 9 and I was deeply excited at the prospect. I had always enjoyed ancient...
George LongleyOct 28, 20212 min readAqueducts!Most readers will very likely be familiar with the Roman aqueduct, the highly sophisticated water transport method. This short article...
George LongleyOct 23, 20211 min readApeiron Such was the name that physicist Max Born gave to the 'primordial substance' that his colleague Werner Heisenberg concluded was the...
George LongleyOct 22, 20214 min readHuman souls, human systemsClassical Thought for the Day XXIV I remember once conversing with a fellow graduate student at the start of term party, when we got on...
George LongleyOct 21, 20212 min readEveryone needs a Socrates!Sententia Hodierna! (SHD) XXIII I would like to thank Ancient Wisdom for sharing the following quotation by Kierkegaard, which has...
George LongleyOct 20, 20211 min readUtopia - an ideal place?Wordy Weekly XXXIV If you were asked to define the word ‘Utopia’, you would probably say that means ‘an ideal society/place’ and was the...
George LongleyOct 17, 20213 min read'That's gratitude for you!'Sententia Cotidiana XXII So squawks the hawk on Mary Poppins’ umbrella at the end of the film. But on a more serious note, gratitude is a...
George LongleyOct 15, 20214 min readVIRGILfelix dies tibi sit! - Happy Birthday Virgil! I am a great fan of Virgil. In my opinion, he is one of the greatest poets ever, not just...
George LongleyOct 15, 20213 min readγνῶθι σÎαυτον Know Thyself!- Know Thyself: Sententia Cotidiana XXI The question of today’s ‘thought’ is what this phrase really means. Scrolling through a few...
George LongleyOct 14, 20212 min readBy George, I've Got It!Some may spot a somewhat oblique reference to the wonderful Lerner and Lowe musical, My Fair Lady, when Professor Higgins sings, ‘By...
George LongleyOct 14, 20212 min readDr George’s Old-fashioned Fancies IIWordy Weekly XXXIII Do you know a good punning put down? I do indeed, there is no better put down than a Latin deponent verb. (Dr...
George LongleyOct 11, 20213 min readμὴδεν ἄγαν - Sententia Cotidiana XXLessons from Delphi There are two famous maxims of Greek thought inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi: · μὴδεν ἄγαν ...
George LongleyOct 8, 20214 min readSocrates and the Good Square LessonOne of my favourite scenes from a Platonic dialogue is the scene where Socrates guides Meno’s slave boy through a geometric problem...
George LongleyOct 6, 20213 min readNature’s Wonders - Sententia Cotidiana XIX (06/10/2021)Descriptions of nature can often reveal the timelessness of ancient literature. Earlier today I posted a short article on my Tumblr blog...
George LongleyOct 4, 20214 min readHUE do you think you are? Colours from Classics.Wordy Weekly XXXII Latin and Greek both have some beautiful words for colours and some (well, quite a few actually) have made their way...
