What to do with a Classics Degree
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A financial blog called FINS has an interview with “HFM” who is described: Meet “HFM,” an anonymous hedge fund manager who sat down for multiple interviews on the financial crisis from 2007 through 2009 with the literary magazine n+1. Those interviews have been collected and released as a book “Diary of a Very Bad Year:…
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Interesting job/life: Liana Lupas stands out in New York, even by the standards of a city that defines itself with superlatives and seems to have world-class specialists in every conceivable discipline. She calls herself “the only librarian in the world who takes care of one book.” Of course, that book is “the” Book, the Bible.…
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Seen in the New York Times: I couldn’t help noticing a theme running through the Book Review for Jan. 24. The lead review treated books by Garry Wills, whose primary academic training was in classics (Latin and Greek), and John Yoo, whose teachers at the Episcopal Academy in Pennsylvania, where I teach Latin and Greek,…
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We can add the author of the recently-released The Last Ember to the list … from the Courier-Journal: New York author Daniel Levin has garnered rave reviews for his debut suspense novel, “The Last Ember” — a fictional thriller set in Rome and the Middle East. Advertisement Jonathan Marcus, the book’s protagonist, and Dr. Emili…
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Some excerpts from a lengthy piece in the Boston Globe: When Harvard was founded nearly four centuries ago, all students read and spoke Latin. They had to: Lectures were delivered primarily in the ancient tongue, and the classics was pretty much all they could study. Today, the number of students conversant in Cicero and Plato…
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