Word: pindaric
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...this entire reading list with that kind of knowledge of ancient languages because—poor souls—they didn’t have the time to acquire this knowledge,” says Classics assistant professor Francesca Schironi. “You can’t read Pindar nonstop with two years of Greek.”Doing poorly in the six-hour general examination—which consists of sight translations and analyses of passages from writers ranging from Terence to Herodotus—can jeopardize Classics concentrators’ chances of receiving honors and even graduating.But...
Even though he has taken six more years of Latin than Greek, he admits, “Greek is my big thing.” For his thesis, “Through the Lens of Epinician,” Agarwalla wrote about foil in victory songs by Pindar and Bacchylides...
...addition to Pindar, Agarwalla names Sophocles and Plato as his favorite Greek authors. His favorite Latin authors are Virgil, Cicero and Catullus...