Princeton Freshmen Get a Taste of the Classics

In an article for Slate, College Makeover: Wrestling with Greco-Roman ideas, Anthony Grafton of Princeton describes in endearing, reality-TV-based terms, the lucky life of freshmen in his charge, who spend their days reading translations of Homer, Plato, the Old and New Testaments, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky, under the direction of a classicist, a medievalist, a Renaissance literature specialist, and two historians.