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...composition from reading to publication. And more than anything else, we can begin to flesh out the intellectual universe of a specific writer, and the wider cultural concerns of a period, by scrutinising their reading. The burgeoning number of recent publications on famous writers and public figures as readers, from Alan Bennett’s fictionalisation of Queen Elizabeth...

...Du contrat social (Of the Social Contract, 1762). The Archbishop of Paris, the Sorbonne and the high court in Paris likewise condemned Entile to be burned. Rousseau fled to asylum in Prussian territory...The Enlightenment: 4.3 Responses to religion - Reasoned responses to religion could take many forms. It was rare for writers to profess outright atheism; even in those...

...composition. This course highlights the similarities and differences between our modern Games and the Ancient Olympics and explores why today, as we prepare for Rio's 2016 Olympics, we still look back at the Classical world for meaning and inspiration. Please note that within this course, animations of athletes contain scenes of nudity in order to give a more realistic...

...composition on a set of staves braced and barred together’ (Oxford Classical Dictionary) or staves ‘that are vertically aligned so as to represent visually the musical coordination’ (Grove Concise Dictionary of Music). Put very simply, it shows all the parts of a piece of music and how they fit together. The function of a musical score is to document a piece of...

...composition, but encompasses all types of music and musical practices from all cultures and historical periods. The course uses the term ‘musical practices’ because musicological study isn’t restricted to studying pieces of music and their structures and meanings, but can include the ways music is discussed or written about, related elements such as the economics...

...composition in performance’ element, whoever the poet (poetēs comes from the Greek meaning the ‘one who makes’) was would have been clear for all members of that audience to see. By the same token, since there is no eye-witness account of the Iliad or Odyssey being composed, we have no information about their poet or whether indeed the same poet composed both...

...sang of the Achaeans’ return home, a bitter ordeal, sent them by Pallas Athena after they left Troy. In her upstairs room the daughter of Icarius, circumspect Penelope, heard and understood his divinely inspired song, and came down the tall staircase from her part of the house, [330] not on her own, but attended by two women servants. When she, glorious among women,...