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Article #5344Re: Learning Greek
From: Edwin P. Menes
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:00
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The first reference is to the elder Cato, who claimed not to have learned Greek until old age. The report is in Plutarch's life of the man, and there is enough internal evidence to eviscerate the claim. Perhaps Cato did not engage in a systematic study of Greek lit until he was in his 70's or 80's, but he knew more Greek than he advertised. Probably a matter of cultural imperialism, Roman variety, in the early second century. The second reference must be to I.F. Stone, a true marvel. He knew no Greek until an advanced age, learned it, then wrote a book about Socrates. Ed Menes
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11289b,55e77fb722d2ee4e X-Google-Attributes: gid11289b,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,c3b9fccd5ba7a959 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: 105352,55e77fb722d2ee4e X-Google-Attributes: gid105352,public From: emenes@orion.it.luc.edu (Edwin P. Menes) Subject: Re: Learning Greek Date: 1996/12/17 Message-ID: <5951ek$k9o@artemis.it.luc.edu> X-Deja-AN: 204505358 references: <58nfl2$lqd@epx.cis.umn.edu> <ALDERSON.96Dec12160924@netcom16.netcom.com> <58sfo0$6r7@scooby.beloit.edu> <ALDERSON.96Dec13161859@netcom16.netcom.com> <58upns$nif@news.istar.ca> <32b5c87c.12419308@news.mindspring.com> followup-to: sci.lang,humanities.classics,sci.classics organization: Loyola University Chicago newsgroups: sci.lang,humanities.classics,sci.classics nntp-posting-user: emenes