Mark Twain famously said in a speech that a classic is “something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” Classics, like all beautiful things, grow more beautifully in time. Yet they require us to apporch them intentally. One of the reasons I decided to get an M.A. in Classical Studies was that I wanted to read whole chunks of the Western canon, but I knew I needed the accountability and Biblical framework that a Seminary setting provided. ...