{"id":106498,"date":"2022-12-28T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=106498"},"modified":"2022-12-28T11:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:24:21","slug":"vale-preofessor-merlin-peiris-a-classicist-par-excellence-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/vale-preofessor-merlin-peiris-a-classicist-par-excellence-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale: Preofessor Merlin Peiris, A Classicist Par Excellence &#8211; By Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Vale: Preofessor Merlin Peiris, A Classicist Par Excellence &#8211;<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> By Michael Roberts<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88737 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Roberts\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106499 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/merlin-prof-1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Preofessor Merlin Peiris,\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Source :\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/12\/28\/vale-preofessor-merlin-peiris-a-classicist-par-excellence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Punsara Amarasinghe<\/strong>,\u00a0i<strong>n The Guardian,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/slguardian.org\/prof-merlin-peiris-the-last-of-the-mohicans-leaves-the-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18 December 2022<\/a>, where the ttile runs thus:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c<strong>Prof. Merlin Peiris: The last of the Mohicans leaves the stage\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The greatest quality that would aggrandize Merlin\u2019s name above the current mediocre scholars in Sri Lanka is his intellectual tolerance towards dissent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The demise of Prof Merlin Peiris embodies the end of an epoch representing the humanities academia in Sri Lanka as he was obviously the last of those great doyens who lived when the country\u2019s humanities education was prospering in those halcyon days at the edge of the British rule. Prof. Merlin was one of the first students of the maiden batch of Peradeniya University when it was shifted from Colombo in 1950 and began his flair for classics even before he entered the university under the wings of Noel Phoebus at St. Peter\u2019s College in Bambalapitya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">As the old adage goes \u201cour beginnings never know our ends\u201d, Merlin\u2019s childhood fancy for Greeks and Romans made his fate sealed in the realm of classics till the moment he departed from the mundane world. Indeed,\u00a0<strong>he was destined to be Sri Lanka\u2019s foremost classicist in its post-colonial context with lots of challenges that loomed before him.\u00a0<\/strong>First, a subject like classics was purely an elite one in those bygone days which was essentially confined to a particular class with Oxbridge pedigree. In particular, those who excelled in Greek and Latin in colonial Ceylon mainly used the classics as a bridge to peruse either law or join the elite Ceylon Civil Service. There was no gusto among the young Ceylonese graduates to read for a doctorate in classics and in one instance the famous Vice Chancellor of Peradeniya University , Sir Ivor Jennings, scorned the idea by saying \u201cclassics PhD is impossible for a Sri Lankan as it is toughly ploughed field\u201d. Young Merlin made famous English colonialist\u2019s remark a fallacy by obtaining his PhD in Classics within one and half years from London University and many Sri Lankans followed his steps later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The second challenge that Prof Merlin confronted was the uncertain winds of politics that the whole country faced from the nationalist rhetoric of SWRD Bandaranaike in 1956. The influx of\u00a0<em>Swabasa\u00a0<\/em>to the university level simply vanquished the elite status held by classics in the humanities faculty in Peradeniya which resulted in the exodus of many of the finest scholars from Sri Lanka to foreign countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">However,\u00a0<strong>Merlin took up the department of Western Classics in Peradeniya when the subject was at stake and audaciously spared it from a total eclipse.\u00a0<\/strong>His biggest contribution to classical scholarship was the writings he left on Greek motifs in\u00a0<em>Jataka\u00a0<\/em>stories which remained to be an untouched zone till he unveiled it in one of his writings. In addition to that Prof Merlin was a zealous learner in Mahawamsa studies and compared Sri Lanka\u2019s prime great chronicle with the other historical events in Greco-Roman antiquity. Comparative study of the Mahavamsa and classical Greece was a neglected field among the local historians as such an astute study requires a keen knowledge of both Sri Lankan history and Western Classics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">During the colonial era, those who mastered classics showed less alacrity in examining the country\u2019s historical relations with the Western civilization and those who gained their training in Sri Lankan history at the University of Ceylon possessed insufficient knowledge of Greco-Roman studies.\u00a0<strong>Under these circumstances, Merlin\u2019s interest in connecting western classics to Sri Lanka\u2019s ancient history was<\/strong>\u00a0<em>sui genris<\/em>.\u00a0The dozens of articles that he authored in the Journal of Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka unfold how this island was known to Greeks and Romans in the days of yore. Indeed, it was Prof. Merlin who inspired later-generation classicists like D.P.M Weerakoody to inquire further into Sri Lanka\u2019s historical connection with Greece and Rome. Yet\u00a0<strong>his biggest forte was rooted in Greek philosophy,<\/strong>\u00a0which was the field he mastered for his PhD at London University. The long conversation that I used to have with Prof. Merlin at his villa in Dangolla were often filled with lengthy arguments on the Grecian notion of rebirth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The greatest quality that would aggrandize Merlin\u2019s name above the current mediocre scholars in Sri Lanka is\u00a0<strong>his intellectual tolerance towards dissent<\/strong>. As a humane scholar, he was always patient in listening to the other person\u2019s opinion. I recall how I approached him during my student days at Royal College as the only Sinhala medium student who sat for Greek and Roman Civilization for GCE Advanced Level and he walked the extra mile by providing me with study materials written in Sinhala. Even though I shifted away from studying classics at the university, my association with Prof Merlin remained unchanged till his demise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Vale Magnum Magister!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vale: Preofessor Merlin Peiris, A Classicist Par Excellence &#8211; By Michael Roberts Source :\u00a0thuppahis Punsara Amarasinghe,\u00a0in The Guardian,\u00a018 December 2022, where the ttile runs thus:\u00a0\u201cProf. Merlin Peiris: The last of the Mohicans leaves the stage\u201d The greatest quality that would aggrandize Merlin\u2019s name above the current mediocre scholars in Sri Lanka is his intellectual tolerance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,42710],"tags":[50335,50334,23017,687,7752],"class_list":{"0":"post-106498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-michael-roberts","9":"tag-greeks-and-romans","10":"tag-humanities-education","11":"tag-peradeniya-university","12":"tag-sri-lanka","13":"tag-st-peters-college","14":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vale: Preofessor Merlin Peiris, A Classicist Par Excellence - By Michael Roberts - eLanka<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Punsara Amarasinghe, in The Guardian, 18 December 2022, where the ttile runs thus: \u201cProf. Merlin Peiris: The last of the Mohicans\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vale: Preofessor Merlin Peiris, A Classicist Par Excellence - By Michael Roberts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Punsara Amarasinghe, in The Guardian, 18 December 2022, where the ttile runs thus: \u201cProf. Merlin Peiris: The last of the Mohicans\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/vale-preofessor-merlin-peiris-a-classicist-par-excellence-by-michael-roberts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-28T11:23:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-28T11:24:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/merlin-prof-1-e1672226411645.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"413\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/vale-preofessor-merlin-peiris-a-classicist-par-excellence-by-michael-roberts\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/vale-preofessor-merlin-peiris-a-classicist-par-excellence-by-michael-roberts\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"Vale: Preofessor Merlin Peiris, A Classicist Par Excellence &#8211; 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