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Dr David Butterfield is the Provost of Ralston College, and Professor of Latin. He works primarily on Latin literature, particularly poetry of the Late Republic and Augustan periods. Before joining Ralston he spent two decades at the University of Cambridge as a student and University Senior Lecturer, where he was Director of Studies in Classics, Praelector and Archivist. His teaching covered Latin and Greek literature, prose and verse composition, and textual criticism of the Classics.
Tomorrow, he is returning to the show to discuss the story and history of the Odyssey, Homer, ancient Greece and what Hollywood gets wrong.
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It would seem natural to me that deviations in production of a play/performance over time accumulate (if anything, simply because it's boring to do the same thing). But at some point the new interpretation can be so different from the original (e.g. the new 1984 movie) that it can become opposite in its messaging. Is this a new phenomenon or has it been happening ever since the ancient times and to ancient stories?
Latin and Greek are seen as elite, stuffy subjects in school, how can we change that as the classics are, well, classics?