Sunday, October 09, 2022

 

Lists

Paul MacKendrick, The Roman Mind at Work (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1958), p. 30:
We can judge a culture by what it makes lists of: for Americans, baseball averages; for ancient Greeks, Olympic victors; for Romans, triumphing generals.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 2:05 PM


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