Baseball, Julius Caesar and Guitars

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When he’s not teaching Latin, Greg Davis is an agile outfielder at a AZMSBL, an Arizona league. Or crooning at an open-mic session at coffeehouse in Chandler with his hand-made guitar. Greg Davis, a man of many parts, has a way of making students forget they are learning a language no one speaks.

In this podcast I pick his brains on why Latin still survives as a subject in schools, and its connection with classical academies — something that goes back nearly five hundred years. Seriously! There’s also a neat connection between Latin and five of the founding fathers of the United States. Including, Benjamin Franklin. Or course.