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These Volumes Are The First In ASeries Containing Works By Erasmus ,that Concern Literature And Education,: Interests Which To Him Were Scarcely SeparableThe Aim Of Erasmian Education Was ACivilized Life, Expressed In Christian Piety And The Fulfilment Of Public And Private Duties And Embellished By Learning And LiteratureTowards These Ends The Soundest Training For Youth Was What Erasmus Often Called Bonne Litterae, ,good Letters,, ALiterary And Rhetorical Training Based On Greek And Latin AuthorsFor Centuries The Classical Curriculum Was The Core Of Liberal Education, And Erasmus Was Long Regarded As Its ExemplarThough Never AUniversity Teacher Except Briefly At Cambridge , He Was A,teacher Of Teachers, Through His Treatises On Pedagogy And Rhetoric And His Many Works Of ScholarshipThe Four Works Presented Here In Annotated Translations Are Characteristic Expressions Of His Dedication To Learning And His Confidence In The Values Of Classical Literature For The Modern World Of His TimeAntibarbari , Translated And Annotated By Margaret Mann Phillips, Is ADefence Of The Humanities Against Ignorant And Misguided Critics Who Question Both Their Supposed Worth And The Appropriateness Of Pagan Writings For Christian PupilsThe Reply Of Erasmus Becomes AManifesto On Behalf Of Reason, Scholarship, And LiteratureAs For Paganism, He Insists That If Secular Knowledge Is Used Properly It Cannot Harm But Must Help Christians,none Of The Liberal Disciplines Is Christian, Because They All Antedated Christianity, Yet They ,all Concern Christ, Because They Can Be Put To Christian UsesParabolae , Translated And Annotated By R.a.bMynors, AWork That ,contributes Eminently To Style,, Is ACollection Of Similitudes Drawn From Observations Of Men, Customs, And NatureMany Are Culled From Plutarch And Seneca, But For Those From Seneca, And From Aristotle, The Moral Applications Are Added By ErasmusAs An Exercise In The Rhetoric Of Moral Philosophy ,many Jewels In One Small Box,, Erasmus Terms Itthis Book Quickly Became Popular And Long Remained SoDe Copia , Translated And Annotated By Betty IKnott, Is Not APlan For The Entire Curriculum But ATreatise On The ,abundant, Or Rich Style In Writing And Speaking Latin, AGuide To Attaining Fluency And Variety In DiscourseAs AManual For Students De Copia Broke New GroundIt Was ARemarkably Successfu
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