But the real detectives in this case have been a transatlantic band of papyrologists, theologians, classicists and biblical scholars, who have turned their deductive and evidence-sifting professional skills to the mystery.
A classicist like Mozart might not be the first composer we think of when we look at Rothko's abstract paintings, but Rothko considered Mozart's stylistic and formal principles a direct influence on his art.
In 1762, during Jay's third year, the Oxford classicist Myles Cooper replaced Johnson as president, and so he spent his final year and a half in college studying Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides.
Classics (also Classical Studies) is the study of the languages, literature, laws, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other material culture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; especially during Classical Antiquity (ca. BC 600– AD 600). Traditionally, the study of Classical literature (Greek and Roman) was the principal study of the humanities.