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Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity
By:S. Cuomo
Published on 2007-08-02 by Cambridge University Press

This book uses five case-studies to set ancient technical knowledge in its political, social and intellectual context.

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Don't you kind of pine (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the great ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were evenly plainspoken, merely effective, unpretentious, and -- most importantly else -- dull, boring, boring? Do not you type of loathe when persons claim'do not you think in this way or experience this way'in an endeavor to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically in to agreeing with them? In the words of ABBA: I actually do, I do, I do(, I really do, I do). Well, as the interwebs is really a world by which days gone by stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the present (and with fetish porn), we are able to review the past in their inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at the very least till this website eventually tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's report on Macbeth in their entirety. I have bound it with much string and dragged it here for the perusal. (Please understand that many a sic are intended in the following reviews.) its actually complex and ridiculous! why cant we be studying like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that guide is good! There you have it. Refreshingly, not just a review prepared in one of the witch's comments or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Only a primal shout unleashed in to the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) an adolescent, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation having an economy and a quality that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's overview of the exact same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which might be the case, for many I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you do not want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it had been designed to be read, then it will be a novel, not just a play. On top of that the teach had us students see the play aloud (on person for each character for a couple pages). None people had browse the play before. None of us wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to produce me pretty much hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can definitely fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the author and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to read a play you then have sinned and will hell, in the event that you rely on hell. If not, you're going to the DMV. I am also fed up with whatever you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age when we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited to anticipate others tokowtow on your small linguistic rules. Creative concept will probably no cost alone it doesn't matter how you are attempting for you to shackle it. 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