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Latin and Greek are still so relevant to us all
Far from being irrelevant, classics is right in the midst of our culture once again
by Natalie Haynes
September 15, 2014

Far from being irrelevant, classics is right in the midst of our culture once again. More Greek plays have been performed over the past 50 years than at any time since fifth-century Athens. And it’s not just on stage or screen that classics is big box office. Museums are contributing to the surge in popularity, too: the British Museum broke records with its Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition last year. It may well do the same thing next year when it puts on an exhibition about the human body in Ancient Greece.

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