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Why study dead languages?

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Why should we learn a dead language? Professor Elisabeth Minchin speaks to Odysseas Kripotos and offers a lot of reasons why, in today's world, we should continue to study the languages and literatures of the ancient Greeks and Romans, who are so remote from us both in time and in space.


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Why should we learn a dead language? Professor Elisabeth Minchin speaks to Odysseas Kripotos and offers a lot of reasons why, in today's world, we should continue to study the languages and literatures of the ancient Greeks and Romans, who are so remote from us both in time and in space.



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