As a classicist, it actually reminded me a lot of the state cults of many a Greek city-state.

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This was undoubtedly encouraged when the Luxembourg architect Leon Krier, an avowed classicist and superb delineator, joined Stirling's office in 1968.

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As Mr Spivey, a Cambridge classicist, shows in a book which consistently picks at our sores, these are also dilemmas which have long histories.

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And while Alex Hope's slogan "coding is the new Latin" did not appeal to some, it must have appealed to the classicist in Michael Gove.

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There is, however, another version of the artist, the European, the classicist, and it is not surprising to see that this is the aspect the Pompidou has chosen to celebrate.

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If you've seen writer-director Frank Darabont's films (including two King adaptations, "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile, " that earned him Oscar nominations), you'll know he's an old-time Hollywood classicist at heart.

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It's his Trinity College training in London -- he got into composition by applying as a violist, he laughs -- that helps him go where no classicist likely even knows one might venture.

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Because his pronouncements tend to be oracularly vague, readers can interpret them to reflect their own views from the classicist who deplores pop music to the vaguely disaffected Web designer, or the concerned parent who finds his children consumed by social media.

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According to Reviel Netz, a classicist at Stanford University who is working on the palimpsest, the original uncorrected diagrams suggest that Archimedes was more concerned with the mathematical arguments his geometry gave rise to than with the real-world behaviour of the objects he wrote about.

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