classics Archives - The American Scholar

Scrutinize Everything

By Mike Rose | 06/13/2016 |

Riddles for the Afterlife

By Sarah Ruden | 12/07/2015 |

Decoding the hieroglyphs that accompanied the dead pharaohs

The Wisdom of the Ages

By Andrew J. Bacevich | 09/07/2015 |

Looking to the classics to steel yourself against life’s cruelties

Virgil’s Aeneid

By Willard Spiegelman | 04/13/2015 |

A tale foreign and familiar

The New Old Way of Learning Languages

By Ernest Blum | 09/01/2008

Now all but vanished, a once-popular system of reading Greek and Latin classics could revitalize modern teaching methods