[B-Greek] Internalizing Greek (and Opium)

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun May 23 10:45:39 EDT 2010


I won't cite the text but simply refer interested B-Greekers to the Old Curmudgeon's
blog this morning, an awesome pair of paragraphs from Thomas De Quincey's
"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" concerning internalization of
ancient Greek and typical boys' pranks in the schoolroom:

http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2010/05/precocious-grecian.html

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)



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