Is an artist-teacher a mere professional who balances a career—or does the duality of making and teaching art merit a more profound investigation? Rejecting a conventional understanding of the artist-teacher, this book sets out to present a robust history from the classical era to the twenty-first century.
Course No. 751 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Greenberg San Francisco Performances Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1. Introduction and Early Life 2. The Lean Years and the Pre-Classical Style 3. Haydn’s Marriage and Esterhaza 4. Esterhaza Continued 5. The Classical String Quartet and the Classical Symphony 6. London 7. Beethoven, London Again, and Breakthrough 8. The Creation, The Seasons, and the End
This Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes
An entertaining introduction to logic and reasoning, packed with puzzles and thought experiments for the reader to try. The paradoxes of this book are nearly all philosophical – often with continuing debate over resolution. Many are classical; most are well known to the philosophical community, though a small number feature the author’s own spin.
English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present.
36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture Taught by John R. Hale University of Louisville Ph.D. Cambridge University
On October 22, 1738, an engineer in the army of the Bourbon royal family in Naples had himself lowered down a well shaft to begin the first systematic study of an ancient wonder just then coming to light: the astonishingly intact ruins of the Roman city of Herculaneum, buried in the eruption of Vesuvius almost 1,700 years earlier. This trip down a well not only marks the beginning of Classical archaeology but also ...
36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture Taught by John R. Hale University of Louisville Ph.D. Cambridge University
