Great article.<p>Note that in Britain, there&#x27;s a small community of classicists who are permanently having to defend the relevance of their studies. It seems to be drilled into them that what they study is relevant to modern society (which it is). Thus you find the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, peppering in Rome references in his writings. Everything that happens in the news is at some point going to have a commentator who studied classics, and you&#x27;ll get nice Latin quotes.