Tracy Simmons has written an earnest, poignant, but ultimately hopeful book, regretting what we have lost by abandoning classical education, but also describing what we might gain, for ourselves and for our children, by taking up that arduous, bracing path.
— author of The Adamses: America's First Dynasty, 1735-1918.

Tracy Simmons, a journalist and humanist, makes a compelling case for the relevance of the study of classics in interesting and untraditional arguments often unknown even by classicists. We who teach Latin and Greek, more so now than ever, need to be reminded by unforseen allies and important books like this why the classical worlds must not be forgotten-and why in so many unexpected ways they are relevant to thousands outside the university.
— author of The Other Greeks, and co-author of Who Killed Homer?