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> Striking contrast with the most well known classicist in the UK being unable, by their own admission, to comfortably read Latin text basically at all.

Sorry, what? Who is this? Even the PhD students I knew in classics, the ones who were specializing in history or literature, were comfortable reading texts written during their time periods of interest.



https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignor... — per this blog post (which takes https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons... as the starting point), most classicists “can't sight-read a complex Latin text all that well” [unlike medievalists and Renaissance scholars].


Granted I’m 35 years out of undergrad, but my classics professors could most definitely sight-read complex Latin just fine.




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