Greek, Latin and a Global Dialogue among Civilizations
Gregory Crane
Lampros Polkas's insight:
Greek and Latin are poised to play a much broader and dynamic role in the wider intellectual life of humanity. Where the study of these languages has been a symbol, and all too often an instrument, of ethnocentrism and of disengagement from wider society, Greek and Latin are world languages, with corpora far larger and more complex than the tiny secular canon upon which classical studies have focused, and are thus languages in which ideas have evolved and shaped major portions of the world for thousands of years.