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I never understood ‘classics’ as a subject. Feels like it should be refactored into dead languages and history curricula. Most access for modern literary scholarship should rest on translation into living languages maybe?
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Here I become a traitor to my class and defend Princeton’s decision to remove Latin and Greek from its required curriculum for classics majors: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ (Traitor to my Latin class, that is.) In @TheAtlantic
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Don't you think it's important to preserve understanding of the untranslated primary sources? It seems like it would be a massive loss if we only knew the Bible, all Greek and Roman writing, and most pre-modern scholarship through translation
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