The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had
"The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition,"--Amazon.com
Print Book, English, 2016
Updated and expanded edition View all formats and editions
W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2016
Criticism, interpretation, etc
510 pages ; 22 cm.
9780393080964, 039308096X
1012018829
Part I. Beginning : preparing for classical education
Training your own mind : the classical education you never had
Wrestling with books : the act of reading
Keeping the journal : a written record of new ideas
Starting to read : final preparations
Part II. Reading : jumping into the great conversation
The story of people : reading through history with the novel
The story of me : autobiography and memoir
The story of the past : the tales of historians (and politicians)
The world stage : reading through history with drama
History refracted : the poets and their poems
The cosmic story : understanding the Earth, the skies, and ourselves