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“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. ‘What good will it do you,’ they asked, ‘to know this tune before you die?’” — from “Why Read the Classics?,” in The Uses of Literature (trans. Patrick Creagh)

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but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave.

Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)

Four Plays of Aeschylus

Aeschylus

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Classical Christian education employs the language arts (Trivium: grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the mathematical arts (Quadrivium: astronomy, arithmetic, music, geometry) in the pursuit of educating whole persons – mind, body, and soul. These arts are not simply subjects, but are as they are called – arts. That is, they are principles and methods... See more