History
The APA was inaugurated by William D. Whitney, of Yale, at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1869 as an outgrowth of the Classical Section of the Oriental Society. Originally its members studied a great variety of texts and languages, but as disciplines such as linguistics and modern languages have created their own societies, the APA has come to be concerned with classical antiquity and fields closely related to the study of antiquity, while the definition of "philology" has broadened to include many approaches to understanding the ancient world.
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