Last week I read the book: Classics: A Very Short Introduction
by Mary Beard and John Henderson. This was a small book
about the study of ancient Greek and Rome culture. It was
very clevery written, being based around a small temple
in the countryside of Greece.
If I was one those ex public school boys I would have known all about the classics, perhaps before I reached my teenage years. I now know a little bit more-- better late than never. I now want to go to the British Museum to look at all the looted statues from ancient Greece.