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Article: Mighty mouse; Classical studies.(The classics revival)(increased popularity of study of Greek and Latin languages)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2002
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Latin and Greek are attracting a new generation of schoolchildren with the help of strip cartoons and comic characters
REPORTS of the death of classics have been greatly exaggerated. Having survived all manner of indignities since the early 1960s--from changing fashions in education to brutal funding cuts--the discipline is, all things considered, in remarkably good shape.
The current revival of interest in ancient Greece and Rome can be seen everywhere: in film and on television ("Gladiator"; countless history programmes and documentaries), on the stage (Fiona Shaw's star turn as Medea was a theatrical highlight last year) and in publishing ...