From rickyt@drmworld.com Sun May 25 09:03:56 2003 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h4PG3t1M055568 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 09:03:55 -0700 Received: from relay3.softcomca.com (relay3.softcomca.com [168.144.1.70]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h4PG3rYT005808 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 09:03:53 -0700 Received: from M2W044.mail2web.com ([168.144.251.150]) by relay3.softcomca.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5576); Sun, 25 May 2003 12:07:46 -0400 Message-ID: <323740-22003502516526102@M2W044.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: rickyt@drmworld.com X-Originating-IP: 172.199.249.199 X-URL: http://mail2web.com/ From: "rickyt@drmworld.com" To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: RE: Another pre-mortem on classics Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 12:05:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 May 2003 16:07:46.0389 (UTC) FILETIME=[C7EB1050:01C322D7] X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XXIII, Probability=23%, Report="DEAR_SOMEBODY, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, SPAM_PHRASE_02_03, __EVITE_CTYPE, __HAS_X_PRIORITY" Dear List: I have watched the Classics-L discussion about the disturbing academic trends involving the classics with interest and alarm=2E This latest posti= ng provokes me to offer my tuppence-worth related to this concern=2E=20 I am another non-professional who yet highly esteems the values to be gained from the study of classics, as my subscription to this list attests= =2E It seems to me that all of the facets I have seen presented in this discussion are important angles that need to be used and eplored in this siege of sorts=2E It need not be an either/or proposition=2E Perhaps there= is even some way to ride on the coat-tails of this new quasi-empire in fashioning another empirical strategy for classical revival=2E In my opinion, the bottom line is that the study of classics is enormously= enriching, a source of intellectual pleasure and cultural understanding=2E= >From a personal perspective, an honors survey course on Intellectual Traditions of the West (at the freshman level) sparked my desire to study the languages so that I could read those authors I had grown to love in th= e original tongue=2E My undergraduate degree in Classics eventually evolved from this introductory experience=2E Thus, to me, it is clear that there i= s a value in related survey courses as "recruiting grounds" for future classicists=2E=20 Best regards, Ricky Torrey, JD, LLM SLC, UT -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E .