Hello and welcome to the Culturalist, the part of the Victor Davis-Hampson show.

The Culturalist is dedicated to events and people, past and present that have influenced

the way we live.

And the things that we value, and Victor, the namesake of this show is the Martin

and Ili Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution

and the Wayne and Marcia Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

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The topic today is the death of classics.

So we're going to look into Victor who is a philologist or was trained as a philologist

in classical studies is going to talk to us a little bit about the importance of classics.

And then there was the death of three very important classes this summer.

So we would like to talk about their contribution to classics and the importance of classics

to an education and then maybe what's happened to classics.

But first let's have a word for more sponsor.

Welcome back and we are on the subject of the death of classics.

And Victor just so I can inform the audience you've written a lot on classics and it's

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