New Humanists
New Humanists
Ancient Language Institute
Gamble, Marrou, and the Uses of History | Episode XC
1 hour Posted Jun 16, 2025 at 5:00 pm.
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Send us a text Why study history? To understand ourselves? To pass on the tradition of our ancestors to our progeny? To build something new? Jonathan and Ryan compare Richard M. Gamble's and Henri-Irénée Marrou's attempts to answer these questions. They look at Gamble's introduction to his anthology The Great Tradition, and then at Marrou's introduction to his scholarly masterpiece A History of Education in Antiquity. Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO Evelyn...