{"id":73904,"date":"2025-10-04T01:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=73904"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:30:21","slug":"the-art-of-speed-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2025\/10\/04\/the-art-of-speed-part-five\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Speed&#8211; Part Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Classical education involved not only required study of Christian sources, but also classical literature as well.\u00a0 It is only in the 20th century that the requirement to study the Greek and Latin classics became optional 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