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Ancient World
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Like Hebrew, Greek is an emotional language—a language of the heart. Latin, not as much.
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― My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World
― My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World
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Classics is a subject that exists in that gap between us and the word of the Greeks and Romans. The questions raised by Classics are the questions raised by our distance from 'their' world, and at the same time by our closeness to it, and its familiarity to us. In our museums, in our literature, languages, culture, and ways of thinking. The aim of Classics is not only to discover or uncover the ancient world (though that is part of it, as the rediscovery of Bassae, or the excavation of the furth
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― Classics: A Very Short Introduction
― Classics: A Very Short Introduction
