A CLASSICAL EDUCATION - THE STUFF YOU WISH YOU'D BEEN TAUGHT AT SCHOOL

How often do you wish that your Latin education extended to something more useful than veni, vidi, vici? Or that the Greek alphabet weren't, well, all Greek to you? Is geometry your Achilles heel and does your knowledge of Homer have more to do with The Simpsons than the Sirens?

From engineering and architecture to drama and democracy, the world around us is founded on the principles and discoveries of the Ancient World, yet our understanding of it is episodic at best. So if you've ever confused Plato with Pluto, struggled with Socrates, wished you could formulate a logical argument or wondered whether the Romans really dined at vomitoria, then carpe diem and delve into this book - it is never too late to learn.