Technology Versus the Classics, feat. Timothy Griffith | Episode CVI
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The episode discusses the impact of technology on classical literature and education, featuring insights from Timothy Griffith.
Send us Fan Mail When the Loeb Classical Library was launched, the greatest language teacher of the age, W.H.D. Rouse, wrote an essay meant to promote the Loebs by extolling the magnificence of Greek literature and Latin literature. And boy did he. "Your mind cannot live without them. All the great intellectual impulses begin in Greece; the modern world only grows crops from the Greek seed." While Rouse admitted that his space was short, and so he had to "be dogmatic," this essay, "Machines o...
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