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🗓️ 3 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | On Christmas Day, 2020, Reginald Foster passed away at the age of 81 in a nursing home facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
0:07.5 | He had been diagnosed with COVID-19 just days before. |
0:11.0 | This episode is not necessarily about his passing, however. It's about his life, and in particular, how he had one of the most unique jobs in the world. |
0:19.0 | Learn more about Reginald Foster, the world's foremost Latinist, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Audible. |
0:35.0 | This episode is sponsored by audible.com. |
0:39.0 | Today's audiobook recommendation is Long Live Latin, |
0:42.0 | The Pleasures of a useless language by |
0:44.5 | Nicola Gardini. What uses Latin? It's a question often asked by those who see the language of |
0:50.1 | Cicero as nothing more than a cumbersome heap of ruins and something to remove from the curriculum. |
0:55.0 | In this sustained meditation, |
0:57.0 | Gardini gives us his sincere and brilliant reply. |
1:00.0 | Latin is quite simply the means of expression that made us and continues to make us who we are. |
1:06.1 | In Latin the rigorous and inventive thinker Lucretius examined the nature of our world. |
1:10.5 | The poet Propertius told of love and emotion in a dizzying variety of registers. |
1:15.0 | Caesar affirmed a man's capacity to shape reality through reason. |
1:19.0 | Virgil composed the Aniad without which we'd see all of Western history in a different light. |
1:23.0 | You can get a free one-month trial to audible and two free audio books by going to |
1:27.5 | audible trial.com slash everything everywhere or by clicking on the link in the show notes. |
1:35.0 | To understand the mission and life of Reginald Foster, |
1:40.0 | you first have to know his title. |
1:42.0 | Father Reginald Foster. |
1:44.1 | Technically, he was a friar in the discolst Carmelite order, |
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