Sunday, March 03, 2024
Haute Vulgarisation
M.I. Finley (1912-1986), The Use and Abuse of History (New York: The Viking Press, 1975), p. 212, with note on p. 246:
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The mandarins should perhaps be reminded that at the University of Berlin the patron saint of twentieth-century classical scholarship, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, gave two-hour public lectures every week which were events in the life of the city. 'Philology,' he once wrote, 'is for philologists; whatever is immortal in Hellenism is for every man who wishes to come, to see and to grasp.'64Wilamowitz, Reden und Vorträge, 3. Aufl. (Berlin: Weidmann, 1913), p. 3:
64. Quoted from Hölscher, Chance des Unbehagens p. 24.
Die Philologie für die Philologen: das Hellenentum, das was darin unsterblich ist, für jedermann, der kommen, sehen, erfassen will.
