Penn State
There's an old saying that learning from the past can help you prepare for the future. This applies not only to his own mistakes past, but it also means taking on the categories of those who came before you. If you are an adult or you're in seventh year, reading about mythology and the classics is not only fun, it can be like reading an old version of news today.
"If I had to choose books for our leaders today would read Virgil's Aeneid and Greek and Roman classics, "says Marie Bolchazy, executive vice president Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. "The classics are the foundation of our civilization, and still living in the debate and the same ideas that were at the time, whether we realize it or not. "
Bolchazy recommends three books that have an excellent resource to go possible to meet all aware of how our past informs our future:
* "Virgil's Aeneid: Selections from man whose city is destroyed by war, struggling to find more purpose in life and leaves the woman who likes to fulfill his destiny.
A new version updated and revised selected passages from Virgil's Aeneid, this title has the Latin text with selected vocabulary and notes on the same page, the old illustrations, general introduction and introduction each section and the literal translations.
* "Considerations Classic - Useful Wisdom from Greece and Rome"
This title contains 53 quotations from Greek and Latin authors, translated into English and accompanied by a short essay, poem or explanation of context.
A diverse group, including students, a psychiatrist, Veterans of Vietnam and at least one authority in the direction of Penn State football Coach Joe Paterno, participation in their own words how these ancient writings have influenced their lives. Paterno Trojan hero Aeneas cites as an inspiration not only in football but in life.
* "The Epic of Gilgamesh" Danny P. Jackson
Adopted by major books of the Foundation as a classic, this is one of the surviving epic of Mesopotamia - an area currently in the headlines because of great advances and conflicts.
This revised 2nd edition of the first epic of humanity has a lucid introduction historical and cultural by Dr Biggs, a test of new interpretation on the themes of Gilgamesh by James G. Keenan and their echoes in literature and the other in the ancient world and work original.
