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From: Diana Wright <nauplion@charm.net>
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A classicist who has been severely deaf from childhood posed this
question last night:
                 If I lived in Classical Athens, how would I attend the
theater?  They wore masks and I wouldn't be able to lip-read.

And as a parallel question: Are there references to deafness?

DW





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gentium desaeviret, regum
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