👍The sole benefit of the “immortals” (like that doesn’t sound like a vampire cabal or anything) is that it makes reading older texts easier for modern students and y’know what? Fine. 12yr olds reading Voltaire in the original is cool, but not de rigueur. That’s what historians/translators are for. 👍The sole benefit of the “immortals” (like that doesn’t sound like a vampire cabal or anything) is that it makes reading older texts easier for modern students and y’know what? Fine. 12yr olds reading Voltaire in the original is cool, but not de rigueur. That’s what historians/translators are for.