(R142) The Uses of Greek and Latin

Eleven of the fourteen papers collected in this volume were read at a Warburg Institute colloquium in June 1986, whose tone was set by a masterly lecture by Arnaldo Momigliano which is printed first. The aim of the volume, we are told in a brief but admirably succinct introduction, is to explore some areas of the classical tradition, combining philosophy with history, and to show how the study of Greek and Latin has shaped and informed almost every branch of inquiry, from theology to shipbuilding. Classical studies, we are reminded, survived because they were essential in so many different fields, pagan antiquity only one of them. That is an aim wholly consonant with...

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