Sunday, December 5, 2010

Andrew Lang

I finally had a reason to dig up Andrew Lang's Homer and the Study of Greek when I was asked if I was familiar with him.

In the past, I would have said 'Isn't that the Fairy Tale Book Guy, where all of the books are a different color?' But this time, I had the good fortune of having read his opinions on Greek, and was able to sound a bit more scholarly than I usually am.

When I found that essay online (instead of in my textbook where I had originally read it) I was doubly fortunate to find piles of his work online, and excavating that pile for nuggets of good reading has occupied a small amount of my time which wasn't devoted to video games or watching football.

Good stuff.

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