The Battle of the Classics, How a Late Nineteenth Century Debate Can Save the Humanities to Day

In the late nineteenth century, there was a series of disputes about the rule of latin and greek in American higher education. The battle of the classics is a particularly useful window to look at the arguments for the modern humanities that are made to day. In my book I try to offer a sounder defence for the modern Humanities going all the way back to roman antiquity as a means to understand the predicament of the modern humanity.