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| Contentid | 9751 |
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| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Editorial: Back to Latin |
| Body | From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07iht-edmotyl.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y Back to Latin By ALEXANDER MOTYL July 6, 2009 I’ve just decided to do something without any evident utilitarian value whatsoever. I’ve decided to read Vergil’s Aeneid in the original Latin — a language that once, as a junior in high school, I could sight-read. What better way to assert my independence in a flat, crowded and hot world that suffers from clashes of civilizations, the end of history and other tired metaphors masquerading as big ideas? Vergil understood that metaphors and metonyms and other literary devices help tell a good story — they enrich our sympathetic understanding of human experience without substituting for sound analysis. And poor Aeneas knew full well that life was a series of both contingent and fated events that could not be foretold or explained with any degree of accuracy. Read the full op-ed at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07iht-edmotyl.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y |
| Source | New York Times |
| Inputdate | 2009-07-11 07:33:35 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2009-07-11 07:33:35 |
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| Publishdate | 2009-07-13 00:00:00 |
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