… 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]
Thursday, May 26, 2022
We have need of such now …
… GILBERT HIGHET, THE FIRST CELEBRITY CLASSICIST. (Hat tip, Dave lull.)
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The first American celebrity classicist? I'd have thought that Erasmus or one of the Renaissance Italians might have a prior claim.
ReplyDeleteAs I should have said, though, most interesting.
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