R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
More by R. Scott Clark ›
David’s pronunciation is better than what I myself was taught at (high) school, e.g., λύουσι pronounced “loo-owssy”
Interesting how the elites get a classical education but they want Dewey for our children.
Walt,
The elites aren’t getting a classic education much any longer. That’s what makes Johnson’s performance so fascinating. It’s a throwback to another time and place.
To be fair, those who can afford fee-paying schools in the UK usually have access to Latin, if not Greek, and the decline in the state sector (in England at least) has levelled out.
Hello Allan,
Happy New Year!
My sense is that classics departments in the US, in state-funded universities are in some trouble. Apart from a few private “classical schools” virtually no one learns Greek before university.
This memorial of one of my classics profs (with whom I read Homer) is telling.
https://www.unl.edu/classics/remembering-valdis-leinieks
In honor of Prof. Leiniks: “What case, what case, what case?”
Imagine him dropping in on an unsuspecting Charismatic service, and he starts “speaking in tongues!”
Iliad
Thank you! I tried to fix one typo only to make another.
It’s all Greek to me! Have a Blessed Christmas!