#CLASSICS

Meg

agameganon

I dunno man, I don’t think it’s my job to try and rehabilitate the reputation of Classics. Perhaps it’s ironic given that Classics is the study of ancient civilisations long

Ναντίρα

nadhirawho

Surprise, I started a blog! It’s meant to be part my own ramblings, part resource hub, part community for BIPOC in Classics & related fields. A lot of the posts

Satoshi’s Disciple (₿)

Satoshis_D

Cobra Classics Part 1. Cobra Classics Part 2. Cobra Classic Part 3. Cobra Classics Part 4. Cobra Classics Part 5.

Dr. Anika Prather (but please call me Anika)

AnikaFreeindeed

I am so sorry I am so late jumping in on this chat on the NY Times article about Padilla...reading the article and my heart....In so many ways I can

Ted Joy

TedJoy71

IN 1998, classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath published a book with the provocative title Who Killed Homer? in which they argued that professional classiciststhemselves were responsible for “the

Jennifer A. Frey

jennfrey

I agree with much of this, but I would have added that the rise and fall of classics in US universities is complex, and there is much that has rightly

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

NYT article about @platanoclassics: "He wants to save the Classics From Whiteness." White prof responding: "He wants to destroy the classics." I don't have time to go into all of

dan, simul doctor et docendus

thauma_idesthai

the fact that this piece casts "doing away with the label 'classics' altogether" as an existentially horrifying and unthinkably radical move tells you everything you need to know about how

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suxsfulrecovery

i hate to do this but let me answer this one for uneducated ignorants on twitter:"Why Justin Bieber has so many monthly listeners yet he's are not the most streamed

BDM

bdmcclay

ok i will do a one like = one @nyrbclassics recommendation thread until i get bored with this post being the like collectorhttps://twitter.com/bdmcclay/status/1329820460431925251 my personal opinion is that the most

small-C communist 🏴🚩

_____newt

Just had a classmate in Classics ask incredulously how Classics is connected to white supremacy, and I thought I'd share my reply: Studying Greek and Roman history doesn't inherently link

Emma Welsby

Ros_Lanta

For anyone interested in the #TrojanWar #art #classics #mythology #ceramics #paintings #sculpture #mosaics #photography:The Judgement of Paris: a thread of 23 images from prehistory to modern. First up, an Etruscan

Kanjun Qiu

kanjun

Reading “classic” novels in high school seems a waste. I’d not yet had the life experience - or introspection - required to at all grasp what the authors were saying.

Theo Nash

theo_nash

This is a thoughtful piece that deserves close reading and consideration from all Classicists.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html The subtitle is unfortunately sensationalist; this is the more imp

Adam Sternbergh

sternbergh

apropos of nothing and certainly not recent twitter conversations, what’s a classic novel you’ve read that absolutely rules I’ll go with HOUSE OF MIRTH, a complete barnburner also THE GREAT

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

When I was in grad school, I also would have wished that "classics isn't political." Why? For me, classics was like Star Trek's Holodeck. A meandering thread about why: #ClassicsHolodeck

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