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Article: Is ancient history relevant today? (Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
- Author:
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In his interview with The Historian, Peter Calvocoressi, a distinguished writer of contemporary history, acknowledges his debt to the classical education in Greek and Latin language, literature, and culture that he received at Eton in the late 1920s. Such testimony undoubtedly seems eccentric to many readers of this journal, who consider an education in the languages and history of antiquity to be worlds removed from the affairs and concerns of the late twentieth century, useless for anyone interested in modern history, and irrelevant for someone who is preparing to take an active leadership role in the coming twenty-first century.
If study of the West's ...
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