A few weeks ago, I ordered a used copy of Caesar’s Gallic Wars in an Oxford Classical Texts edition. I bought used not only for price, but also for quality. As many of you no doubt know, in recent years the OCT editions have become poor quality reprints - toner on computer paper by the looks of it. Happily, the vendor refunded my purchase, and as I set about to search for a quality replacement copy, I happened upon this forum and a thread bemoaning the same issue with the OCTs. Here are my people, I thought. So here I am.
My classics background is a couple years of Latin in secondary school, bachelor’s degree in Classics (Ancient Greek language concentration), post-bac fellowship in Classics, and a masters in political theory with a thesis on, among other things, Thucydides. Then I left all that behind for career for roughly the past decade.
With the new work-from-home regime, I’ve found myself with more leisure time and proximity to my books. So I’ve started to pick back up the classics. I’ve been re-reading the complete works of Plato in translation with some consultation of the Greek here and there (I’m extremely rusty), and I’ve also found myself gravitating toward Roman history (thus, the Caesar).
I look forward to participating in the discussions here, and I’m also open to creating or joining reading groups if that’s something of interest for others. With that, I’ll conclude my introduction by saying, again, thank you for having me. Glad to be here.