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> Striking contrast with the most well known classicist in the UK being unable, by their own admission, to comfortably read Latin text basically at all. Sorry,
by globnomulous 2y ago
> Striking contrast with the most well known classicist in the UK being unable, by their own admission, to comfortably read Latin text basically at all.
Sorry, what? Who is this? Even the PhD students I knew in classics, the ones who were specializing in history or literature, were comfortable reading texts written during their time periods of interest.
- svat 2y agohttps://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignorantiam.html https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignor... — per this blog post (which takes https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/what-does-the-latin-actually-say https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons... as the starting point), most classicists “can't sight-read a complex Latin text all that well” [unlike medievalists and Renaissance scholars].
- dhosek 2y agoGranted I’m 35 years out of undergrad, but my classics professors could most definitely sight-read complex Latin just fine.