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Ep 36 - How to Read World Literature in Translation

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The Importance of Learning Ancient Greek and Latin

Ancient Greek would be the most musically charged. Malapeic language in the great literary tradition. Despite English robbing from all of these languages, that's a reason to learn ancient Greek. Reading Shakespeare is like going to a brook in the middle of the forest and being silent. You might be able to understand Elizabethan and Jacobian renderings of the English tongue but that doesn't mean you can read Shakespeare.

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