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The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East; With an Historical Survey and Descriptions

Volume I – Babylonia & Assyria Volume II – Egypt Volume III – Ancient Hebrew Volume IV – Medieval Hebrew Volume V – Ancient Arabia Volume VI – Medieval Arabic, Moorish, and Turkish Volume VII – Ancient Persia Volume VIII – Medieval Persia Volume IX – India and Brahmanism Volume X – India and BuddhismContinue reading “The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East; With an Historical Survey and Descriptions”

Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week One

Background Reading for Parents (and interested students) “A Short History of the Aesopic Fable” in The Fables of Aesop (1894) Introduction to the section on “Fables and Symbolic Stories” in Children’s Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes (1921). “Introduction” to The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom (1922). “On theContinue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week One”

Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Introduction

The draft of this writing curriculum will appear here, in regular installments, as it is pulled together, beginning in summer 2023. Year One, for 9th graders, will cover Fable, Narrative, Anecdote, and Maxim over thirty-six weeks, nine weeks per “exercise” (type of writing); Year Two, Refutation, Confirmation, Commonplace, and Encomium; Year Three, Invective, Comparison, Personification,Continue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Introduction”