A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information--all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.
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"The ultimate guide to cultural one-upmanship.... "
--The Sunday Times, Scotland
"The Bluffer's Guide to the Classics has some good lines in it. I like Lawrence Durrell's master who held up a picture of the Venus de Milo and said: 'What do you think they were trying to do? Make us tingle with lust? Certainly not! They were asking themselves what beauty is, and whether it lies in proportion.' "
--The Times
--The Sunday Times, Scotland
"The Bluffer's Guide to the Classics has some good lines in it. I like Lawrence Durrell's master who held up a picture of the Venus de Milo and said: 'What do you think they were trying to do? Make us tingle with lust? Certainly not! They were asking themselves what beauty is, and whether it lies in proportion.' "
--The Times
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In many bluffs, you run the risk of coming across someone who might spot you. With the Classics, you may assume a reckless confidence, subject only to avoiding dinners in Oxbridge colleges. That shouldn't be too difficult.
Also, be sure to digress. Every good Classical bluffer does it, for digression is the acme of his trade; it's the way to make a little knowledge go a long, long way.
Bluffer's Guides is a series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and all you need to know for instant expertise.
Also, be sure to digress. Every good Classical bluffer does it, for digression is the acme of his trade; it's the way to make a little knowledge go a long, long way.
Bluffer's Guides is a series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and all you need to know for instant expertise.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
if you like this book you're probably overeducated,
This review is from: The Bluffer's Guide to the Classics: Bluff Your Way in the Classics (Bluffer's Guides - Oval Books) (Paperback)
This books reminds me of a sweatshirt that I have that rougly says in Latin "if you can read this you are overeducated". This is a witty, erudite lampoon of Roman and Greek life, literature, politics etc. The book is in the same vein as "1066 and All of That" a famous treatment of British history. However, like most satires , it helps to know the original. This is not a book for those ignorant of the Classical worlds. It is a great book for those who suffered through dead languages in high school & would like to pretend like they remember any of it. I also recomend Ross Leckie's other books: Hannibal and Scipio, which are fictional treatments (novels) of these military leader's lives. But, Leckie wraps a lot of wonderful detail around the tale so, the stories come to life.
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