Vasos Gregos

In 1949 [Seth Benardete] was for me a formidable exotic. I remember vividly to this day a long conversation we had one night in his dormitory room during which Benardete informed me that he regarded it immoral to love a human being. As a youth with a certain proclivity to this form of immorality, I was incredulous and asked him what we should love. He replied in a magisterial tone: "Greek vases."

Stanley Rosen in Leo Strauss in Chicago