Sunday, January 27, 2008
One more Stanford-USC story
Earlier today I attended a meeting of Stanford alumni leaders from the LA area. We get together periodically to plan and coordinate local alumni events. Someone there told a great story about the Stanford-USC football game that I had not heard before.
A very popular class among Stanford athletes (including football players) is Ancient Athletics taught out of the Classics department by Professor Patrick Hunt. It can't be too easy since the course syllabus I saw includes Homer, Virgil and Plato.
When the class met on Monday, October 9th after the Stanford win over USC, Professor Hunt placed laurel wreaths on the heads of all of the football players in the class accompanied by a reading in Greek about their accomplishment. I am sure that someone in the class pointed out that the Trojans lost the Trojan War too.
Serendipitous moment - the scheduled topic for that Monday's lecture was "Plato’s Republic as an Ideal Arena." Was Professor Hunt thinking of the Coliseum when he planned the course? Hmm.
A very popular class among Stanford athletes (including football players) is Ancient Athletics taught out of the Classics department by Professor Patrick Hunt. It can't be too easy since the course syllabus I saw includes Homer, Virgil and Plato.
When the class met on Monday, October 9th after the Stanford win over USC, Professor Hunt placed laurel wreaths on the heads of all of the football players in the class accompanied by a reading in Greek about their accomplishment. I am sure that someone in the class pointed out that the Trojans lost the Trojan War too.
Serendipitous moment - the scheduled topic for that Monday's lecture was "Plato’s Republic as an Ideal Arena." Was Professor Hunt thinking of the Coliseum when he planned the course? Hmm.
