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...educated person who studied the Bible. Patronage The ‘ideal’ patron of the arts is someone who financially supports an artist and purchases their work. However from the very earliest days of patronage, works of art were regarded as either items for use, or as a display of wealth, designed to enhance the prestige of both patron and artist. Historically wealthy...

...educated culture tradition which discusses how you insult people in a kind of theoretical way and that tradition constantly distinguishes between what you might call cultivated insult, in which you don’t actually call a spade a spade but you rely upon irony, innuendo, nudge-nudge, wink-wink, know what I mean? Whereas there is another kind of insult which used the...

...educated Roman, epic poetry was a Greek invention, and its most famous examples were Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, which told stories of the Greek heroes involved in the Trojan War. Although early Italians may well have had their own native traditions of heroic song, no traces of these survive, and the earliest attempt to write epic poetry in Latin was a translation of the...