classics

[classics]

Study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome

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Noun
study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome


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Usage Examples

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

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Other Usage Examples

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

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