A Humanist Education at Rhodes

Erasmus of Rotterdam, hero of the Rhodes Classics Department,
was “…the first and greatest intellectual superstar of the modern West…Erasmus had a mission with Greek. He wrote repeatedly about learning Greek and tirelessly performed his role of demanding, cajoling, teaching, stimulating knowledge of Greek in cities across Europe, often in the face not just of apathy but of organized and extended opposition.” Simon Goldhill in Who Needs Greek? (Cambridge, 2002) 14-15