Example sentences for: classicist

How can you use “classicist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At times his "pride and petulance" became intolerable, writes classicist Robert Graves in The Greek Myths . In Mythology , Edith Hamilton writes, "He is represented as falling in love with one woman after another and descending to all manner of tricks to hide his infidelity from his wife."

  • Other essays include: "Edible Ecriture," by British Marxist Terry Eagleton, which argues that Samuel Beckett's anorexic prose may betray "a race memory of the Irish famine"; and "Savouring the Antique," by classicist Emily Gower, which warns against romanticizing the Roman bacchanalia, since "most ordinary people experienced famine and lived at subsistence level."

  • Robert Fagles, a Princeton classicist, translated The Iliad in 1990 and sold an astonishing 140,000 paperback copies of his version.

  • A classicist, Arendt saw the public arena as a version of the Athenian agora--a world of political theater, where the harsh light of publicity shines upon fierce debate.

  • --I might be a classicist today.


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