[B-Greek] Thomas Paine on the value of learning Ancient Greek (was dead languages)

nebarry nebarry at verizon.net
Fri Mar 11 09:21:49 EST 2011


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Walkwitz" <edwalkwitz at yahoo.com>
To: "Mark Lightman" <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>; <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Thomas Paine on the value of learning Ancient Greek 
(was dead languages)


> Fight for all things? Did I understand that phrase correctly? Sounds like 
> it's
> common sense that we should fight for the study of Greek, except I guess 
> it's an
> old battle by now. I wondered what the original Greek would say about 
> this, so
> I tried to call him on my cell phone, but couldn't get thru. Have a good 
> one!

I know a little Hebrew, and I know a little Greek...

Jacob has a butcher shop, and Ari sweeps the street.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Classics and Bible @ TAA
http://www.theamericanacademy.net





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