Monday 3 August 2015

A thought

I wish I could understand Ancient Greek. There are certain things I'd love to be able to read for myself, rather than having to rely on someone else's translation, particularly when those translations date from the first quarter of the Seventeenth Century. I take the same approach to literature as I do to music, that is, a scholarly one. I want to see the original sources and not second-hand ones. I want to know exactly what the original author said, and not what somebody else said he said.

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