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Works and Days long poem by Hesiod, considered a farmers’ almanac of ancient Greece. [Gk. Lit.: Benét, 1102] See : Pastoralism How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No less poignant in this book is its evocation of spirit of place struggling to survive in an environment of mega-machines and mega-technology that annul the human factor and mercilessly regulate the rhythms and the seasons of our works and days. How do we turn our knowledge -- our ways of knowing," Randy Bass and Bret Eynon ask in their introduction to a special, double issue of the journal Works and Days "into student learning? Nicholas Orme's eighty-page study of Magdalen College School has chapters on the School's foundation and fifteenth-century context, its early teachers (dealing in detail with those prior to 1500), the physical structure of the School and the works and days of its pupils, and finally the School's early impact, through the "diaspora" of Magdalen teachers to other schools and the Latin grammar texts Magdalen teachers composed. |
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