Tuesday, October 05, 2021
Scholarly Fantasies
D.W. Lucas, review of Wolf H. Friedrich, Euripides und Diphilos (Munich: Beck, 1953 = Zetemata, 5), in Classical Review 5.1 (March, 1955), pp. 41-43 (at 43):
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Yet in the long run it is bad for classical studies to take refuge in the convenient fallacies that nothing is ever thought of for the first time, and that things which are similar must be derived one from another....There is always a danger that scholars, baffled by the difficulties of working from inadequate data, may suit their standards of probability to their convenience and come really to think that their fantasies are scientific deductions.
