Althea R. L. Sovani

Classics with Sanskrit undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford. Passionate about Pseudo-Longinus and Marcus Aurelius.

[Althea R. L. Sovani @AltheaSovani]

@SjoerdvanHoorn @ArmandDAngour @stephenfry @holland_tom 5/5 I agree though that nothing of this comes through in my sentence, where it rather seems that I’m subverting Platonic philosophy along with centuries of scholarship! Thank you again for the attention you gave to my article.

[Althea R. L. Sovani @AltheaSovani]

@SjoerdvanHoorn @ArmandDAngour @stephenfry @holland_tom 4/5 In the article, I simply wanted to make the point that the closeness between Latin and Italian is an advantage only if one has a proper understanding of the two languages.

[Althea R. L. Sovani @AltheaSovani]

@SjoerdvanHoorn @ArmandDAngour @stephenfry @holland_tom 3/5 What I was referring to in my sentence was a specific passage in the 'Meno' where Socrates claims that all the things that we normally regard as advantageous, from physical assets to psychological qualities, are truly beneficial only if we have knowledge.

[Althea R. L. Sovani @AltheaSovani]

@SjoerdvanHoorn @ArmandDAngour @stephenfry @holland_tom 2/5 I had noticed that how I formulated that sentence could be easily misunderstood and decided to delete it. You probably read the first version of the article, where it still appeared.