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...publication details. This book contains many vocabulary exercises. In English there are often two words expressing the same idea, one of Anglo-Saxon origin, the other of Latin origin. Anglo-Saxon words can often seem more simple and straightforward in style, while Latinate words can seem more scientific and academic. So simple words and phrases such as go down, high, sad,...

...public were. So when they made the decision to go back to the condition of the house on the day before the fire, they were doing that in order to recreate the right context for those historic works of art, many of which had been in that situation, and that setting, since the, certainly the 18th century, if not, in some cases, from when the house was built. We also have to...

...public festival setting, like the Athenian Great Panathenaia festival mentioned above. If we remember that these poems were usually composed in performance, we can begin to understand some of the distinctive features of Homeric poetry, including ones that don’t translate well into English but are very effective in the original ancient Greek. Figure 6 Iliad 1-1.25,...

...public, whom he likely hoped to impress with his travels in ‘mysterious’ lands previously not known to his audience. Coupled with the caption ‘the priest of the Devil’, this image represents an example of visual dehumanisation and the beginning of centuries-long demonisation of Indigenous religious practitioners categorised as shamans. Witsen never personally...