Taking three years of Latin or Greek covers just about everything that has happened or will happen historically or politically. I learned more about politics reading Paradise Lost than I did any other book.
I'm sorry, are you being sarcastic here? I'm so confused...
Nope. Not at all.
Most Latin and Greek is taught by reading works from the period of Rome or Greece. By the second year, large excerpts of the major works are read and translated. In addition, English translations of major works are played in class. Astute students will begin to see parallels to modern or recent times while good instructors will point them out,
Let's consider the Iliad. Agamemnon and Achilles get in a war of words over drink and insult each other. This could be any leader and his right hand man. Remember when Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson got into it?
Paradise Lost is Milton's thinly veiled insiders account of the English Civil War. Lucifer could be any dictator in history.
It is also a meditation on marriage. Adam and Eve make a bad decision - as have many married couples - and then they blame each other...lol..
Good literature helps us to behold ourselves and our times.
