The Internet has made it easier to fill in the blanks. But not every blank. The reason I began this column looking ahead to the humans of 2,400 years from now is because I’ve been looking back at the humans of 2,400 years ago. If you read a modern, annotated translation of a Greek playwright such as Aristophanes or a Roman one such as Plautus, you will come across a line of dialogue that’s footnoted with the comment “Reference obscure.”

Source: Washington Post July 05, 2021 12:33 UTC