I want Elon Musk to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek.
I reject revisionist history. The Founders viewed America as a nation with a specific Anglo European cultural and ancestral core, open to compatible Europeans who would adopt and strengthen it. Not a blank slate “idea” for the world. The 1790 Act proves this.
A 19-year-old Oxford student in 1900 would have read:
— Homer
— Virgil
— Thucydides
— Xenophon
— Plato
— Aristotle
— Sophocles
— Horace
— Tacitus
— Cicero
Likely in the original Greek or Latin.
Today, many elite graduates struggle to finish a book they weren’t assigned.
Why did schools abandon the classics?
"Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the others enter into no rivalry with him".
— Aristotle