Classics often needs to justify its relevance. The title of Vereeck et al.’s 2024 survey of public opinion, “Revered and reviled,” highlights a struggle to defend the Classics which is unlikely to dissipate. [1] One charge is simply that Classics is boring. In a thread on a popular discussion forum eliciting reasons for learning Latin, … Continue reading They did it first: the skills of the ancient Greeks and Romans