“We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.” KnowsWorldYearsHas BeensLastsClassKnow HowAmountEducatedScholarshipMonarchsUpper Class Author:Stacy Schiff
“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.” KnowsWorldMeanResultsKnow HowBecomingUnityAccessEducatedSupposed To BeBoredSignificanceThickTextureRandomness Author:Eva Brann