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Carlos Martínez Aguirre
Carlos Martínez Aguirre (born 1974, in Madrid) is a Spanish poet and classical scholar. He holds a degree in Classical Philology. He has been a Spanish teacher in the Cervantes Institute of Athens and a research student at the Institute of Byzantine Studies in the same city.Brief biography @ El País. He was nominated for the Hyperion Prize for Poetry in 1997. He is best known for his poems ''La camarera del cine Doré y otros poemas'' (1997), ''El peregrino'' (2014), ''El significado de las lágrimas'' (2020) and his autobiographical essay about the didactics of Classical Languages ''A Strange Odyssey. Confessions of a Classicist'' (2013). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Madrid , coordinates = , largest_city = Madrid , languages_type = Official language , languages = Spanish language, Spanish , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = , ethnic_groups_ref = , religion = , religion_ref = , religion_year = 2020 , demonym = , government_type = Unitary state, Unitary Parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy , leader_title1 = Monarchy of Spain, Monarch , leader_name1 = Felipe VI , leader_title2 = Prime Minister of Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish People
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a Romance ethnic group native to Spain. Within Spain, there are a number of national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex history, including a number of different languages, both indigenous and local linguistic descendants of the Roman-imposed Latin language, of which Spanish is the largest and the only one that is official throughout the whole country. Commonly spoken regional languages include, most notably, the sole surviving indigenous language of Iberia, Basque, as well as other Latin-descended Romance languages like Spanish itself, Catalan and Galician. Many populations outside Spain have ancestors who emigrated from Spain and share elements of a Hispanic culture. The most notable of these comprise Hispanic America in the Western Hemisphere. The Roman Republic conquered Iberia during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. Hispania, the name given to Iberia by the Romans as a province of their Empire, became highly acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Martínez Menchén
Antonio Martínez Menchén (1930 – 7 January 2022) was a Spanish writer. He is best known for his work in children's literature. He began his career under editor Carlos Barral with the publications of ''Cinco Variaciones'' (1963) and ''Las Tapias'' (1968). He is most widely known for his children's book '':es:La espada y la rosa, La espada y la rosa'' (1993). He was the father of poet Carlos Martínez Aguirre and brother of writer Andrés Sorel. Menchén was born in Linares, Jaén in 1930, and died on 7 January 2022, at the age of 91. References 1930 births 2022 deaths Spanish writers People from Linares, Jaén {{Spain-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics also includes Greco-Roman philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, art, mythology and society as secondary subjects. In Western civilization, the study of the Greek and Roman classics was traditionally considered to be the foundation of the humanities, and has, therefore, traditionally been the cornerstone of a typical elite European education. Etymology The word ''classics'' is derived from the Latin adjective '' classicus'', meaning "belonging to the highest class of citizens." The word was originally used to describe the members of the Patricians, the highest class in ancient Rome. By the 2nd century AD the word was used in literary criticism to describe writers of the highest quality. For example, Aulus Gellius, in his ''Att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Direct Method (education)
The direct method of teaching, which is sometimes called the natural method, and is often (but not exclusively) used in teaching foreign languages, refrains from using the learners' native language and uses only the target language. It was established in England around 1900 and contrasts with the grammar–translation method and other traditional approaches, as well as with C.J. Dodson's bilingual method. It was adopted by key international language schools such as Berlitz, Alliance Française and Inlingua in the 1970s and many of the language departments of the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department in 2012. In general, teaching focuses on the development of oral skills. Characteristic features of the direct method are: * teaching concepts and vocabulary through pantomiming, real-life objects and other visual materials * teaching grammar by using an inductive approach (i.e. having learners find out rules through the presentation of adequate linguistic forms in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Ørberg
Hans Henning Ørberg (21 April 1920 – 17 February 2010) was a Danish linguist and teacher. He received a master's degree in English, French, and Latin at the University of Copenhagen and taught these languages in schools in Denmark. He was the author of , a widely used method for learning Latin through the natural approach. Career From 1953 to 1961, Ørberg worked in the , an institute where languages are taught according to the " natural method" of learning. While there he created a new course in Latin: published in 1955. Besides the author's name, there are no non-Latin words in the book. The book has been revised a few times, including in 1983 and 1991; the title was also changed, to . In his retirement, Ørberg directed the publishing house and gave lectures in Europe and the United States on the natural method. Ørberg's is based on the method of natural approach or contextual induction. In this method, the student, who needs no previous knowledge of Latin, begins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Aguirre
Lorenzo Victoriano Aguirre Sánchez (14 November 1884 – 6 October 1942) was a Spanish painter. He also worked as a caricaturist, poster artist and set designer. Biography He was born in Pamplona, but his parents moved to Alicante when he was four years old and his first art lessons came at the age of eleven with Lorenzo Casanova.Brief biography @ the ''Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia''. In 1899 he went to Madrid, where he attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and became a drawing teacher at the "Escuela Especial de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado", a satellite school of the Academy, in 1904.Brief biography @ MCN Biografías. Six year later, he went to Paris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisca Aguirre
Francisca Aguirre Benito (27 October 1930 – 13 April 2019) was a Spanish poet and author. Her first poetry collection, ''Ithaca'', published in 1972, won her the Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award. In 2011, she won the National Poetry Award for her poetry piece ''Historia de una anatomía''. Aguirre also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in November 2018. Biography Aguirre was born in Alicante, the daughter of noted painter Lorenzo Aguirre. She was married to fellow poet Félix Grande from 1963 until his death in 2014. Aguirre and Grande had a daughter, poet and essayist Guadalupe Grande (born 1965). She was an aunt of poet Carlos Martínez Aguirre. Aguirre died in Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ... on 13 April 2019, at the age of 88. Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Sorel
Andrés Martínez López (1937, in Segovia - 7 January 2019 in Madrid), known by his pseudonym Andrés Sorel, was a Spanish writer, who founded the daily newspaper ''Liberación''. From 1962 to 1971, he served as a correspondent for Radio España Independiente under the Communist Party of Spain. He was the brother of writer Antonio Martínez Menchén, and uncle of poet Carlos Martínez Aguirre Carlos Martínez Aguirre (born 1974, in Madrid) is a Spanish poet and classical scholar. He holds a degree in Classical Philology. He has been a Spanish teacher in the Cervantes Institute of Athens and a research student at the Institute of Byzan .... He published more than fifty books during his career. References 1937 births 2019 deaths Spanish writers People from Segovia {{Spain-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadalupe Grande
Guadalupe Grande Aguirre (30 May 1965 – 2 January 2021) was a Spanish poet. She had a degree in social anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Biography Guadalupe was the daughter of writer Félix Grande Félix Grande Lara (February 4, 1937, in Mérida - January 30, 2014, in Madrid) was a Spanish poet and flamenco expert. He won the Premio Adonáis de Poesía for his poem ''Las piedras'' in 1963. He won a Casa de las Américas Prize for his poem .... She was a cousin of poet Carlos Martínez Aguirre. A literary critic and teacher, she wrote ''El libro de Lilit'' in 1995, ''La llave de la niebla'' in 2003, and ''Mapas de cera'' in 2006. Bibliography Anthologies *''De varia España'' (1997) *''Ellas tienen la palabra'' (1997) *''Poesía Ultimísima'' (1997) *''Norte y Sur de la poesía Iberoamericana'' (1998) *''Milenio'' (1999) *''Diálogo de la lengua. Pasar la página, poetas para el nuevo milenio'' (2000) *''Aldea Poética II'' (2000) *''Mujeres de carne y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
