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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 of Charles Darwin as a kindly-looking old man with a big beard, but let's wind the clock back to the vigorous 22-year old embarking in 1831 on the voyage of a lifetime around the world on the survey ship, HMS Beagle. Recently down from Cambridge, his training there for the clergy had assured him that species were fixed in character, having been divinely created with...

...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...