Thursday, May 26, 2022

We have need of such now …

GILBERT HIGHET, THE FIRST CELEBRITY CLASSICIST. (Hat tip, Dave lull.)

… I’ll take the Highet road (to playfully echo a famous Scottish song) in my unwavering zeal to keep alive the flame of the first celebrity Classicist, a truly extraordinary teacher and scholar. Beyond his love for teaching and writing, Highet pursued a lifelong passion for learning, which fueled his teaching – a passion one may find in the passage reproduced here, projecting values that still ring true:[30]

2 comments:

  1. The first American celebrity classicist? I'd have thought that Erasmus or one of the Renaissance Italians might have a prior claim.

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  2. As I should have said, though, most interesting.

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