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...think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Making sense of art history: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the effects of art works understand a range of artistic techniques, such as the use of colour, composition and medium recognise...

...think about what it takes to be a good Roman...Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid: 3.1 What is pietas? - In order to understand Virgil’s depiction of Roman values we need to look at some of the original Latin terms which the Romans used to express moral ideas. The particular quality associated with Aeneas is the abstract Latin noun pietas (whose adjective is pius). In the...

...think of the sounds of nature: the rhythmic swash and backwash of the waves, or heavy rollers crashing on the rocks; the sound of seabirds as they swoop and dive for food or jostle for nesting space on a cliff; or perhaps it is the sound of the wind stirring the reeds and grasses along the banks of a sheltered estuary. Alternately, we may imagine sounds which evoke a...

...think of classical music, which names come to mind? Beethoven? Mozart? Bach? But how many women composers can you name?...Classical music has long been dominated by men – not because women weren’t composing, but because they were excluded from the classical music canon. The concept of a canon – from the Greek kanon, meaning ‘rule’ – refers to the so-called...