It's difficult to construe exactly what is being proposed in this contradictory, bewildering spiel but if it is meant to endorse the idea of awarding degrees in Classics to students who have never read Homer or Vergil I have to say, I'm against it. https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/02/27/on-not-reading-homer/ #deculturation #minds

On Not Reading Homer

Xenophon, Symposium 3.5 “And what about you, Nikêratos—what kind of knowledge do you cherish?” And he said “My father, because he wished for me to be a good man, compelled me to memorize all of Hom…

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Feb 28 2020 · 8:02 PM

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