Caroline Taggart

A Classical Education

The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 04/04/2013

ISBN: 9781782430100

Subject: Non-Fiction

Binding: Paperback

Size: Other

Extent: 192 pages

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

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Summary:

'See if you can tell your Tantalus from your Tacitus!' – The Daily Telegraph

'This book aims to fill you in on the stuff you wish you'd been taught at school' – The Times

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A Classical Education is a must-have for anyone feeling let down by modern schooling.

How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A Classical Education provides all of these classical facts that modern schooling leaves out, and many more.

Perfect for parents who wish to broaden their children's education, as well as for those who would simply like to learn or relearn the facts themselves, A Classical Education is informative and educational, but above all accessible. Subjects include: Latin and Greek; Logic and philosophy; Natural sciences; Art and architecture; Poetry and drama; History and Classical literature.

Reviews:

See if you can tell your Tantalus from your Tacitus!

The Daily Telegraph

This book aims to fill you in on the stuff you wish you'd been taught at school

The Times

An invaluable overview of the principles and discoveries of the Ancients, providing all those classical facts that modern schooling leaves out... and many more

Lancashire Evening Post

A cutely old-fashioned volume covered in Roman centurions' helmets

Yorkshire Post

This book will jog the memory just enough, reviving tales of heroic deeds and ungodly behaviour, without getting bogged down in dull technicalities

The Field

If you wished you'd paid more attention at school, then this is the book for you. Fascinating!

The Good Book Guide

Sales points:

  • For anyone who has ever felt that their education was lacking the richness and variety of the good old days, A Classical Education contains everything you wish you knew in an easily digestible form

  • Covering all the main subjects, from Classical literature and history to philosophy, astrology, the Classical languages, arithmetic and art and architecture via geometry

  • This paperback edition follows on from the successful hardback edition, which has sold over 58,000 copies to date

About the Author:

Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O'Mara Books to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?), and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe. Her website is carolinetaggart.co.uk and you can follow her on Twitter @citaggart.

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