Tag: Classics
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My Time Machine
At the Virginia Junior Classical League Convention one year, a student performed a speech in Latin in front of an audience of hundreds. When I say performed, I mean performed. He emphasized certain Latin words so that the cadence of this ‘dead’ language, typically only seen in print, could be heard and made alive. He…
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O’ Latin, wherefore art thou ‘dead’?
After seven years of studying Latin, I’ve heard every version of the same question: “Why are you studying a dead language?” As a four-time National Latin Exam Gold Medalist (summa cum laude) and co-president of my school’s Latin Club, I’ve gotten used to defending my choice. I usually say something about intellectual rigor or cultural…