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THE IMPORTANCE OF CLASSICS IN THE MODERN AGE I n an increasingly digitized and technology-driven world, we lovers of the smell of paper and special re-printed editions of books (the older they are, the more we love them) often have to face the sarcastic question of, “But will those books seriously provide you with employment?” As an English Literature and Classics student, I believe that Classics in particular is the preferred target when it comes to this kind of sentiment, probably because Classical subjects are associated with ancient things that are buried in the past. Therefore, on an almost daily basis I hear “What is the usefulness of Classics in 2018?” or “What do you need the Greeks and the Romans for?”, often accompanied by a wide range of metaphors taken from the financial world in order to connote “employability”, “value on the market”, etc. In short, what many try to do is “monetize” the non–monetizable, to express in economic terms what can only be expressed (or better, felt) in a way that does not take into account the materialistic logic that rules the modern age, perhaps more deeply than we ever realize. However, as Baudelaire said long ago, “oh hypocrite lecteur!”, affirming that, since the Industrial Revolution and due to the unstoppable machine of progress, art has lost its halo and even the role of the artist has started to fall from grace. Therefore, when I get asked the question “Is what you study going to put
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