"Classics is a subject that exists in the gap between us and the world of the Greeks and Romans. The question raised by Classics are the questions raised by our distence from 'their' world, and at the same time by our closeness to it, and by its familiraity to us. In our museums, in our literature, languages, culture and was of thinking. The aim of Classics is not only to discover or uncover the ancient world (though that is part of it, as the rediscovery of Bassae, or the excavation of the furthest outposts of the Roman Empire on the Scottish borders, shavs). It's aim also to define and debate our relationship to that world."
Mary
Beard&John Henderson: Classics - A Very Short Introduction
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