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Classis: The Journal of Classical Christian Education
Plagues and Classical Literature

Plagues and Classical Literature

Originally published in Classis, Volume XXVII, No. 3 By William Isley During this coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, it occurred to me to read a few of the descriptions of plagues in some classic texts of Western civilization. In times like these, which are...

The Rise and Fall of Reason

The Rise and Fall of Reason

Originally published in Classis Volume XVI, no. 1 By Mitchell Stokes Genuine mathematical understanding is like a three-legged stool. Doing calculations or deriving theorems is only one of the legs. The other two legs are math’s history and philosophy, respectively....

Francis Bacon’s “Four Idols”

Francis Bacon’s “Four Idols”

Originally published in Classis Volume XIX, No. 4 By Phil Arant In viewing the original frontispiece from Francis Bacon’s 1620 work Novum Organum (“New Method”), the observer is intended to notice ships leaving the familiar waters of the Mediterranean and venturing...

Plato On Rhetoric: The Gorgias and The Phaedrus

Plato On Rhetoric: The Gorgias and The Phaedrus

Originally published in Classis Volume XX, No. 4 By Joshua Butcher “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have...

The Best Way to Improve Any Latin Class

The Best Way to Improve Any Latin Class

There are dozens of topics to explore when considering how to improve a Latin class: textbooks, methodology, inductive vs. deductive, paradigm memorization, morphology presentation, etc. But, as important as these all are, they are really only secondary issues. The...