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The Bluffer's Guide to the Classics: Bluff Your Way in the Classics (Bluffer's Guides - Oval Books) - Softcover
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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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.
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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.
Ross Leckie caught on to the Classics in ad 1962 at the precocious age of five. Ostracised to a school in the wilds of Kincardineshire, he soon realised that little competition in the Classics meant much opportunity.
At Oxford he found that the torch of Classical exegesis burned brightly but that most Classicists had bad breath and worked all the time.
To avoid such questions as 'Do you mean modern Greek?' he has variously farmed, taught, roughnecked, engaged in politics and written the award-winning historical novel Hannibal. Its sequel, Scipio, which sounds like the biography of a kangaroo but isn't, came next - as, he observes, sequels often do - and the third part of the trilogy, Carthage, is due out soon if it isn't already.
Now it's per ardua ad astra with novels on Aristotle and Dido. When he is not writing them, he works as director of communications for an Edinburgh investment management company and reviews for The Times. Or so he says.
At Oxford he found that the torch of Classical exegesis burned brightly but that most Classicists had bad breath and worked all the time.
To avoid such questions as 'Do you mean modern Greek?' he has variously farmed, taught, roughnecked, engaged in politics and written the award-winning historical novel Hannibal. Its sequel, Scipio, which sounds like the biography of a kangaroo but isn't, came next - as, he observes, sequels often do - and the third part of the trilogy, Carthage, is due out soon if it isn't already.
Now it's per ardua ad astra with novels on Aristotle and Dido. When he is not writing them, he works as director of communications for an Edinburgh investment management company and reviews for The Times. Or so he says.
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- PublisherOval Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1902825489
- ISBN 13 9781902825489
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
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