I wish I thought that getting an advanced degree in the humanities would give you a background in the (ever evolving group of) classics, but I am afraid academi

I wish I thought that getting an advanced degree in the humanities would give you a background in the (ever evolving group of) classics, but I am afraid academics must specialize and so don't actually get to be well-rounded (Oh, I don't do Plato, I just do Kant...) I have always found my advisors to be disturbed that I thought it important to read widely...