Volume 48, Number 7 · April 26, 2001
From Abakainon to Zygris
By Jasper Griffin
The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
edited by Richard J.A. Talbert
Princeton University Press, 148 pp., with a companion gazetteer on CD-ROM, $350.00; a print version of the gazetteer is also available, in two volumes, 1,383 pp., $150.00
The ancient primacy of the Greeks and Romans in the educational system of the West was still flourishing, in many elite educational establishments, in the 1950s, and indeed in the 1960s and beyond. It was a special and privileged position, but of a very curious kind. In literature, Greece and Rome provided 'the classics,' and in some sense set the standard by which later writers were judged; the brightest boys and, latterly, the brightest girls were expected to study them.
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