Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Perpetually and Profoundly Moving
A.G. Woodhead, The Study of Greek Inscriptions, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 3:
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One of the principal features about the study of Greek inscriptions is the closeness of contact which they give us with the ancient world. That in some weather-beaten fragment we have, before our eyes, the very words of an important and perhaps, in the event, world-shaking decision as inscribed soon after the decision was taken, that we are so to speak reaching across more than two thousand years and grasping the stone-cutter’s hand after he had finished writing words perhaps vital to the future of civilization as we know it, remains perpetually and profoundly moving, and can hardly fail to stir the imagination of even the most stolid student of the classics.
