Many universities debate whether or not to emphasize the “classics” in their curriculum, and this was certainly true in my time at M.I.T. (four decades ago) where one president commented that there were “too many M.I.T. graduates working for Harvard graduates”. I can’t remember too well the Sophocles or Euripides readings, but there was one invaluable lesson that the Greeks transmitted to world civilizations: hybris, or pride, goeth before a fall.
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