Friday, August 19, 2022
Surprise
J.P.V.D. Balsdon, Romans and Aliens (London: Duckworth, 1979), p. x:
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A learned friend of mine expressed surprise at the antiquity of some of the books which I quote; these are in the main doctorate dissertations of the nineteenth century, the sort of work which, with its close concentration of interest on the subject in hand, never seems to me to lose its value. Scholars have grown no cleverer in the last hundred years; it is simply that they have more (particularly in the way of inscriptions and papyri) to be clever about.
