[yarddog]

I too was a classics major for a short time. The department head also taught most of the classes. Dr. Agnew may have been the smartest person I have ever known.

I will never forget him correcting me in class. I described Alcibiades as not having a lot of "character". Dr. Agnew said "Oh no, he had lots of character, just perhaps not good character."

I belonged to the Geography club and we invited him to a meeting. He showed a slide show of kodachromes he had taken all over Greece, the Greek Islands, Asia Minor, and Crete.

He was a good photographer and the slides were fascinating as was his talk. He showed one of the throne of King Minos at Knossos. He mentioned that so many tourists had a seat on it that it was wearing.

Someone asked if he sat on it. He said "I am ashamed to say I did".

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL! My dad sat on it too!

(It's o.k., I don't think it's original, I think it was cast in con"crete" by Sir Arthur Evans.)

My Archaeology prof had a bunch of cool slides too. He was head of the American School in Athens while they were excavating the Agora. Really neat stuff!