{"id":497,"date":"2017-11-20T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/?p=497"},"modified":"2017-11-20T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:59:53","slug":"dr-ronnick-on-the-study-of-ancient-greek-by-african-american-intellectuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/2017\/11\/20\/dr-ronnick-on-the-study-of-ancient-greek-by-african-american-intellectuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ronnick on the study of ancient Greek by African-American Intellectuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-498 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-1.jpg 637w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-1-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-1-624x940.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>&#8220;Education was in fact the second liberation for these people. A free society is not based just on a foundation of laws, but also on full access to the highest elements of culture and learning.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michele Valerie Ronnick visited Trinity to deliver the annual Moore Lecture, which is<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-499 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-2-e1510949548629-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-2-e1510949548629-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-2-e1510949548629-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2017\/11\/2017-Ronnick-2-e1510949548629-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> intended to support the offerings in the ancient Greek language that the department of Classics offers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ronnick presented the many years of research that she&#8217;s done on African-Americans who studied ancient Greek in the late nineteenth century. Among the individuals that Dr. Ronnick discussed, William Sanders Scarborough is prominent. The first African-American member of the MLA (Modern Languages Association) and the third of the American Philological Association (now the SCS, the Society for Classical Studies), Scarborough was a model classicist, presenting several times at annual conferences on subjects as traditional as the grammar of a Greek text and as boundary-pushing as the reception of the Roman playwright Seneca by the French playwright Racine.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Caldwell recorded the lecture, and it&#8217;s now available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n2ouj8Is180&amp;feature=youtu.be\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Dr. Ronnick, for visiting us and for sharing your important research on this important aspect of the discipline of classics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Education was in fact the second liberation for these people. 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