In response to: The Color of Classics
Current issue
November 2024
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
The entire article is about advancing the study of the classics by removing some of the distortions to that history from the 19th century onwards. No one involved is suggesting the cessation of that study. A person does not pursue a Ph.D. in classics — learning several ancient languages along the way — because they do not want to further knowledge of the classics! Right?