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<p>[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 7487455, member: 118780"]This reminds me of several other conversations I had with either my sons' friends or nieces/nephews that stopped over. I was showing them my Athens owl tetradrachm, and the story I love to tell is that Socrates was most likely alive when the coin was minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me: So, do you know who Socrates was?</p><p>Teens: blank stares</p><p><br /></p><p>[I move on to another group]</p><p>Me: So, do you know who Socrates was?</p><p>Teens: Yes. I think so.</p><p>Me: In which city did he live?</p><p>Teens: Blank stares and guesses</p><p><br /></p><p>Granted, as a teenager I couldn't have answered who Alexander the Great's father was, named any of the Diadochi, or more than 3 roman emperors, but I did know about Socrates, even before I watched <i>Bill & Ted</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, I actually got into ancient coins only recently. As a teenager, I collected stamps (still have them), space patches, US coins, and antique firecracker packs - the latter three I sold to fund my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did enjoy reading the Greek classics, in particular Aristophanes and Plato. I had an English teacher in HS who insisted we only read American novels, to which I asked why give it such a heavy emphasis - as the US has a far shorter literary history compared to the rest of the world. We got along well...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 7487455, member: 118780"]This reminds me of several other conversations I had with either my sons' friends or nieces/nephews that stopped over. I was showing them my Athens owl tetradrachm, and the story I love to tell is that Socrates was most likely alive when the coin was minted. Me: So, do you know who Socrates was? Teens: blank stares [I move on to another group] Me: So, do you know who Socrates was? Teens: Yes. I think so. Me: In which city did he live? Teens: Blank stares and guesses Granted, as a teenager I couldn't have answered who Alexander the Great's father was, named any of the Diadochi, or more than 3 roman emperors, but I did know about Socrates, even before I watched [I]Bill & Ted[/I]. FWIW, I actually got into ancient coins only recently. As a teenager, I collected stamps (still have them), space patches, US coins, and antique firecracker packs - the latter three I sold to fund my coins. I did enjoy reading the Greek classics, in particular Aristophanes and Plato. I had an English teacher in HS who insisted we only read American novels, to which I asked why give it such a heavy emphasis - as the US has a far shorter literary history compared to the rest of the world. We got along well...[/QUOTE]
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