It takes the average reader 1 hour and 10 minutes to read A Slightly Hagiographic History of Classics at the University of Virginia by Jon D. Mikalson
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This brief account traces the history of Classics at the University of Virginia largely through biographies of the faculty from the University's first session in 1825 to 1970. 1970 was chosen as the terminus because the author joined the Department of Classics that year, and he prefers to write of the past, as Herodotus did, not of the present, as Thucydides. He also prefers the rambling, somewhat disorganized, anecdotal, and picaresque character of Herodotus' Histories. He has chosen not to follow Professor Ward Briggs who, in his 1986 essay on Gildersleeve and the University, sternly notes...
A Slightly Hagiographic History of Classics at the University of Virginia by Jon D. Mikalson is 70 pages long, and a total of 17,500 words.
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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 35 minutes to read A Slightly Hagiographic History of Classics at the University of Virginia aloud.
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