{"id":6773,"date":"2013-10-24T12:29:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6773"},"modified":"2013-10-24T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:29:28","slug":"dr-stephen-miller-phd-64-on-the-history-and-future-of-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/10\/24\/dr-stephen-miller-phd-64-on-the-history-and-future-of-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephen Miller PhD \u201964 on the history and future of Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Stephen Miller \u201964<\/strong> is Professor emeritus of Classical Archaeology at University of California Berkeley &#8211; Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology; Ancient Architecture; Greek Athletics.\u00a0 After Wabash, he earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p>He was recently interviewed for the web site ekathimerini.com in an article, \u201cComing up for air &#8211; After four decades of excavating Greece&#8217;s past, Dr Stephen Miller raises concerns about the country&#8217;s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6776\" title=\"stephenmiller\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/10\/stephenmiller2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/10\/stephenmiller2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/10\/stephenmiller2.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The lengthy interview included this question, with Steve\u2019s answer:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHow did you first become interested in Greek history?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I went to a small, old-fashioned, all-male liberal arts school in Indiana called Wabash College. Every student must take a semester of biology, chemistry, physics etc. And two years of foreign language. I had opted for Latin in high school. I didn&#8217;t know what language I was going to take in college. For some reason I chose Ancient Greek. When my adviser asked me, \u201cWhy Ancient Greek?\u201d I replied, \u201cSo I can read Plato in the original.\u201d He said: \u201cOK. That&#8217;s a good reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/4dcgi\/_w_articles_wsite4_1_23\/10\/2013_524520\">Click here<\/a> to read the entire interview.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Photo courtesy of ekathimerini.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephen Miller \u201964 is Professor emeritus of Classical Archaeology at University of California Berkeley &#8211; Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology; Ancient Architecture; Greek Athletics.\u00a0 After Wabash, he earned his Ph.D. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}