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    From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 22 18:58:25 2021
    Hi all,

    Do any of you own any of the classic book collections? e.g. The Great
    Books of the Western World or The Harvard Classics?

    Jason

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  • From Rich Alderson@21:1/5 to Jason Evans on Fri Oct 22 18:36:58 2021
    Jason Evans <[email protected]> writes:

    Do any of you own any of the classic book collections? e.g. The Great Books of the Western World or The Harvard Classics?

    Wrong meaning of "Classics". This newsgroup is devoted to the academic field (now often decried) which studies the languages and culture(s) of the speakers of Latin and Ancient Greek.

    --
    Rich Alderson [email protected]
    Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
    omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
    --Galen

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  • From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to Rich Alderson on Sat Oct 23 04:57:48 2021
    On 22 Oct 2021 18:36:58 -0400, Rich Alderson wrote:

    Wrong meaning of "Classics". This newsgroup is devoted to the academic
    field (now often decried) which studies the languages and culture(s) of
    the speakers of Latin and Ancient Greek.

    Thanks for the heads up. I found this also:

    humanities.classics is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 170:37 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 5 Oct 1996.
    This group supersedes sci.classics.

    For your newsgroups file:
    humanities.classics Discussion of ancient Greece and Rome.

    The charter, culled from the vote result announcement:

    For discussion of Classical Studies, especially, but not exclusively, the
    study of Classical Greek and Roman culture, languages, history, and art.

    Commercial posts unrelated to the field, flames, and spams are
    discouraged, unless in Latin or Greek. Binary posts are prohibited.

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  • From Rich Alderson@21:1/5 to Jason Evans on Sat Oct 23 20:57:32 2021
    Jason Evans <[email protected]> writes:

    On 22 Oct 2021 18:36:58 -0400, Rich Alderson wrote:

    Wrong meaning of "Classics". This newsgroup is devoted to the academic field (now often decried) which studies the languages and culture(s) of
    the speakers of Latin and Ancient Greek.

    Thanks for the heads up. I found this also:

    humanities.classics is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 170:37 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 5 Oct 1996.
    This group supersedes sci.classics.

    For your newsgroups file:
    humanities.classics Discussion of ancient Greece and Rome.

    The charter, culled from the vote result announcement:

    For discussion of Classical Studies, especially, but not exclusively, the study of Classical Greek and Roman culture, languages, history, and art.

    Commercial posts unrelated to the field, flames, and spams are
    discouraged, unless in Latin or Greek. Binary posts are prohibited.

    Yes, I was one of the proposers of the humanities.classics newsgroup, and indeed of the humanities.* newsgroup hierarchy, a quarter of a century ago.
    The "especially but not exclusively" was intended to allow discussion of things like etymologies, which could involve languages other than Greek and Latin as evidence.

    "Modern Classics" literature collections are still not relevant under that charter...

    --
    Rich Alderson [email protected]
    Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
    omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
    --Galen

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  • From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to Rich Alderson on Sun Oct 24 07:27:22 2021
    On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 20:57:32 -0400, Rich Alderson wrote:

    Yes, I was one of the proposers of the humanities.classics newsgroup,
    and indeed of the humanities.* newsgroup hierarchy, a quarter of a
    century ago. The "especially but not exclusively" was intended to allow discussion of things like etymologies, which could involve languages
    other than Greek and Latin as evidence.

    "Modern Classics" literature collections are still not relevant under
    that charter...

    I talked to Todd McComb last year about the humanities.* hierarchy and
    how it was created. I wish we had more active newsgroups here. I would
    love to see a humanities.classic-literature newsgroup someday if we could
    get a community together who would use it.

    I'm a member of the Big-8 board. Let me know if we can do anything for
    you in the future.

    Jason

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