What We Do:
We publish Classical curriculum, from a Christian perspective, created for the homeschool.
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To make high quality classical Christian education accessible, affordable, and flexible for the Christian homeschooler.
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To partner with master-teachers of classical education, turning their knowledge, wisdom, and experience into high-quality curriculum, leveraging the power of video technology and the internet to bring it into the hands of homeschoolers and classical schools. Just as the first century roads of the Roman Empire were the physical means by which the early church spread the gospel far and wide, so Roman Roads Media uses today's technology to bring timeless truth, goodness, and beauty into your home.
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Why not use modern English? This is boring as Hell.
A little way into the movie Die Hard, the villain Hans Gruber looks at a model of a Nakatomi Corp. construction project and remarks "When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds left to conquer. ... The benefits of a classical education."
Cincinnatus, the Roman of the Romans.
"...who live for the glory of God and the kingdom of Christ." I literally shouted "WOW" in the crowded subway when I heard that 😂😂😂. I didn't know it was a cristian channel, or at least a christian producer. God bless you, man. Instant subscribe.
1. <s> I do not want to read the writings of an uneducated barbarian (Caius Iulius Caesar), who did not bother to read the Classics (Enuma Elish). </s> 2. This sacrifice is not a sacifice, just simple adaptation to changing times. Other, newer authors bacame and become canon, some of the older ones are getting excluded, marginalised. 3. A Hungarian novelsit Mór Jókai is well known of his extensieve use of Latin and German expressions, therefore all his books include glossary for the readers and even a growing part of the literature teachers think, Jókai should be taken out or minimalized partially because of this archaic language useage. And this is the case here and with the movie mentioned. All those media can have supplementary material to help people to understandt deeper the opus. The HBO serises "Rome" have very good subtitles explaining the actions of the characters from Roman culture point of view. 4. Due to snobbism I started to learn Latin.
Classicist here. Couldn't agree more. But…how do you respond to people who say "I don't care. I don't need this. It is not relevant to me or my culture."
Such a tragedy with the Library of Alexandria and the burning of the books.
what I got from this video: before the internet, memes were written down in books
What do you recommend for history before they get to high school? I’m in love with what I see for high school, but I have a 4th and 7th grader. How do I prepare them for this?
That is a great question, and we devoted an entire Digressio Magazine issue (Volume 3: Preparing for a Great Books Education) to it. You can download it free here: romanroadspress.com/digressio/ But the very shorthand version is this: Prepare for great books using good books. Aesops Fables is a fantastic starting point. The Hobbit, Chronicles of Narnia, The Prince and the Pauper, and so many more. Here is a list of 74 that might be handy. By no means comprehensive, but a good starting point if you need ideas: romanroadspress.com/2016/08/the-74-books-i-read-aloud-to-my-children/
Thank you so very much! Bless you!
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Hi Mr Roman Roads Media. I enjoy your videos. You might like my new book Best Christian Art; subtitle Aesthetic Christianity. It's nondenominational. Christian art in general, and not just Catholic art. I'm going to make yt videos about all the chapters. About 1 per day. I'm a neuroradiologist who occasionally writes about art and literature. I mostly make videos about nutrition and health at my yt channel Peter Rogers MD.
I suggest to listen to some italian readings (Gassman, Benigni,etc...), in the original language with rhymes. 100 chants, 14,233 lines, in rhymes! 😍
Lord Bryon: Don Juan is the only other epic that comes to mind
Bible is stupidity .
Classical education is excellent, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s necessarily “Christian” - it’s not. Most classical literature was written by Greek & Roman Pagans and secular Platonic / Aristotelian philosophers.
I went to college in the 1990’s and was a humanities major so we had to read all the classics. Classical education is still taught in much of Europe, and has only been abandoned largely in America and other English speaking countries.
Funny I find this today, because only a few days ago I finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo. In the book, Dumas probably makes 30 references or more to Greek mythology and theater and undoubtedly virtually all of those references are lost on the modern reader. Thankfully my copy had annotations.
Greek gods are real they ware fallen angels
What you are describing, sir, is the White Erasure of our culture. The erasure of our classics, our standards, our norms and our expectations of behaviour - this has all been done on purpose.
This was quite interesting until all the sycophantic waffle about the latter day akhenaten cult.
Come on. If the god is real. How come The Zeus is not. Or the god comes walking the street for real?
The Chinese had 'The Five Classics '. How does that compare with the Western Classics ?
We explore that at length in Redeeming the Six Arts: A Christian Approach to Chinese Classical Education. romanroadspress.com/store/six-arts/
Yes.. what SHOULD our cultural base be.. now that we have a New World Order 🌎 and the first female President is Hindu 🕉 😀 ?? What IS the challenge of the public education systems with all of the United Nations nations having to agree to make progress towards the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( and Responsibilities ).. ?? 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
To think the Greek gods didn’t have moral expectations of people is a blatant sign of insufficient education of the topic you’re speaking on and malicious bias through misrepresentation. The gods were not examples , the gods faced divine retribution for their misdeeds themselves, and gods were thought to punish people every day.
Welcome to TL/DR land. Mass communication, aided and abetted by computer technology (like what I am typing in now), has killed our ability to sit still and read text for longer than 15 minutes. There's too many things grabbing our eyeballs. Like youtube itself.
the Classics have been replaced by Star Wars and Harry Potter as the universal cultural touchstone. Which is pathetic, I know.
Where would one find the other lectures?
I thoroughly enjoyed this 🙏 Undoubtedly informative and inspiring ❤ Thank you for sharing!
"What we lost when we abandoned classical education" is the ability to make references to a very limited literary canon. Of course, what we gained is an enormous, and enormously rich, literary heritage of a wide variety of cultures, both domestic and global. Indeed, the drive to access a broader, wider, more varied cultural heritage was the primary reason for abandoning classical education. How superficial a view it is, to imagine that the greatest loss when we put classical education behind us is the inability to understand humorous references!
My jaw dropped when I heard the gentleman say that "everybody" knew (in England and the U.S.) the first question of the Protestant catechism -- as if "everybody" were Protestant, in either country. Maryland was founded by English Catholics; the Irish flooded into the U.S. in the 1840s. Perhaps the speaker also believes that all Germans are Protestant as well.
It would have been part of the culture, even understood by Catholics
What a lovely video! Thank you.
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Silvertown?
Bishopric of liege ?
I recall seeing a Sid Caesar skit where Sid in a toga enters a Roman saloon ala Western & calls for a ‘Martino’. The bartender replies “Don’t you mean a Martini?” Sid answers “if I want more than you I’ll ask for it.” Sid was Jewish. Aside those raised with a Romance language, no one would get that joke today. Your loss is in no small part due, to the Catholic Church, Vatican 2, abandoning Latin in the Tridentate Mass - a tragedy. Worse still the loss of magnificent music we once sang.
Aight, but bruh not thinking skibbidi bout what bussin books dey be reading now.
I don't miss academic snobs. Philosophy grads were the worst of the worst. My BA in anthropology never got me anywhere. I'm all for high culture but it's doesn't make you superior, it doesn't get you a job, and in the age of TikTok it's lost cause trying to get the masses to read "their" Caesar..and academic farts like this blow their own horns for their own sake at a captive audience who will owe the bank for life for the privilege of listening to this esoteric condescending horseshit. Though I generally agree society would be better off generally of large swaths of the public had a sense of history, literature, anthropology etc. on the other hand academia is a scam that will ruin your life. The managerial class rules our society with an iron fist and you'll just be unemployed if you listen to this guy's horseshit and get a degree in classical literature
I think you missed your target on this one, because I know what you're referring to, and actually agree to a large degree. What you're seeing here is not a professor in his ivory tower at a university, teaching to students fulfilling a requirement. What you are witnessing here, and the part you don't see, is the renewal of classical education spreading like wildfire across the US. In high school, homeschools, book groups of all ages, SOME colleges (like New Saint Andrews College, St. John's College, Grove City, Hillsdale, etc)...AND ON TIKTOK believe it or not. Look up "Roman Helmet Guy" for an example of a viral type, or Roman Roads Press or @foucachon for a more humble beginnings account on TikTok. Look up the "Learn Latin" Twitter account, or the CLT Exam account (and its founder Jeremy Tate), and the many accounts associated. America knows it lost something precious. This is a minor anecdotal excerpt from a 192 lecture curriculum. Of course it doesn't make the full argument. But the argument is made. Would you like fries with that? Just kidding....our graduates would most likely be selling fries only if they were artisan, and doing so as part of seeking truth, beauty, and goodness. What is a fry after all? What is the essence of a potato? Ah, such are the same questions that led Steve Jobs to state that it is the liberal arts paired with the STEM fields that allow "us" (meaning Apple" to make products that make the heart sing (quoting from memory, but it was iPad 2 Launch and said other places as well). Tolle Lege my friend, Daniel Foucachon, Founder, Roman Roads Press
Thank you for this perceptive description of our loss. Though I speak Spanish fluently, I struggle to interpret the frequent instances of Latin in my readings. I often find that a word or phrase in Spanish expresses much better my thoughts than any word that I know in English, so I understand your point, and Latin syntax baffles me. I wish that I had studied Latin rather than German in my college education. I offer you a parting challenge: be aware of your insertion of um or duh as substitutes for thought.
A friend who holds a PhD in history of the catholic church recently commented that "The Dark Ages" also is a case of protestants slandering the times before the protestant churches were there; it was dark, because there was only the catholic church (or "the church") there.
One way to think about myths and gods is that, although they are not physically real, and are more like persistent thoughts, or as recognizitions of awe and beauty in nature, still even thoughts have consequences. Stories change lives. People don't become spirits after death but are located at living, in their thoughts, dreams and behaviours. We embody our dead and we understand ourselves through myths and stories - and from the teachings and quirks of those that are no more here.
Well, this was a excellent presentation for a summary. I enjoyed the short clear comparisons of appetites and the comments of the saints. I would be inclined to listen longer if there was a way to bring the balance of joy to this competence :) Thank you🙏
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
As for the joy, remember this is a short excerpt from a longer lecture ;)
Roman history and civilization is the bedrock of a classical education . A classical education teachs you how to think , where a Metaphysical education teachs you what to think. They were taught what to think , thats why they are tearing down the college campuses , and shouting down anybody that don't agree with them.
The ignorance of the marxist would destroy western culture , to rebuild in their GODLESS image. Western civilization was born of Romen Civilization , and at the bottom all knew the same history , which is the history of Rome. Latin taken out of the college curriculum the destruction of Christianity has begun , and what passes for learning is but farse.
Whois Gideon Tallamant ?
The dominance of screen-based entertainment created a new canon of sources, away from the Great Books. Now we have ‘Rick Rolled’ for a reference.
.... and we don't know the difference between "cannon" and "canon".
@@barbarapiazza-georgi3831 Chuckle. I do, but my text predictor does not.
@@Z__K217 .... the evils of automation.....:-)
We need to get rid of this woke crap and scotch out this twisted idea from education, the military, business, sports, entertainment to get America back on the straight and narrow. We can elect an American Cincinatus on Election Day. We are not bound to the senile current occupant of the White House nor to his opponent, now staggering under a load of legal accusations. Neither will help us. Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas has proven himself capable of stemming the hordes that descended on his part of the border and deflected them to the states that voted their entry into our country. That's who I will write in on election day.
theres only one god'wake up to yourselves!!
Of course The GODS are still here EROS still present every day every were Christians try to replace Eros with Sant Valentine ARES God of War still around ZEUS still present
YHVH’s followers deprived the Greek gods of magnetite so they’d grow weak and starve to death.
But Israel was not to bring the Egyptians’ philosophy with them 🤔