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Penelope Bauer sips on a margarita, celebrating her acceptance into the graduate Classics program at Boston University, unaware that she will soon become the central player in a bold scheme to save Western Civilisation from itself. Of course, like any intelligent young woman in the dark days of 2018, she sees the symptoms of decay all around her, and the waning of the original values of ancient Greece. The good life for most Americans has become synonymous with the individual drive for wealth and status, acquisitiveness displacing the quest for the classical virtues of wisdom, courage, justice and the like. Indeed, the small liberal arts college from which she will graduate in a week, has fallen victim to the money grubbing paws of a shady for-profit educational corporation. Penny's decision to pursue the Classics reflects her growing realisation that liberal education may be human kind's last best hope. She and her fellow students at the College of St. Francis had the opportunity to e

The Oar of Odysseus

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Penelope Bauer sips on a margarita, celebrating her acceptance into the graduate Classics program at Boston University, unaware that she... Read more

    Publisher: Addison & Highsmith
    Publication Date: 4/1/2021
    ISBN13: 9781592110889, 978-1592110889
    ISBN10: 1592110886

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Penelope Bauer sips on a margarita, celebrating her acceptance into the graduate Classics program at Boston University, unaware that she will soon become the central player in a bold scheme to save Western Civilisation from itself. Of course, like any intelligent young woman in the dark days of 2018, she sees the symptoms of decay all around her, and the waning of the original values of ancient Greece. The good life for most Americans has become synonymous with the individual drive for wealth and status, acquisitiveness displacing the quest for the classical virtues of wisdom, courage, justice and the like. Indeed, the small liberal arts college from which she will graduate in a week, has fallen victim to the money grubbing paws of a shady for-profit educational corporation. Penny's decision to pursue the Classics reflects her growing realisation that liberal education may be human kind's last best hope. She and her fellow students at the College of St. Francis had the opportunity to e

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