Boro dada, Paul Norman describes how language is the framework in which a human being perceives the world and how, in studying Classics, a person realises that this perception is not something that is absolute but is ever evolving. In gaining knowledge of human beings or specific human beings in specific civilisations or epochs we do gain knowledge, ultimately, of ourselves.
Oliver Norman explains the etymology of such words as 'inauguration', 'candidate', 'education' and others.