#Classics

Dr. Anika Prather (but please call me Anika)

AnikaFreeindeed

A thread of an HU student after reading Herodotus Book 3 for the class assignment: "It actually saddens me that Blacks in Classics are hardly talked about. Come to think

Joanne Harris

Joannechocolat

In all my experience of teaching and writing, I've found the current method of teaching English literature - especially the theory of authorial intent - has been the most often

tom owen

tomowencc

So from what I gather, the rights to show Flanders Classics races for the next 8 years are currently up for grabs. Lots of fans seem to be annoyed with

Rookie Matchstick

kookykarthik

The classics discussion on Twitter is another example of how people have become zealous about insisting that art be viewed entirely as an ideological product. Its merits and demerits rising

Openly Black Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

I don't know why people think the racism in the classics made them enjoyable for BIPOC readers. But, fun fact spending years immersed in lit that says your communities didn't

Jeannette Ng 吳志麗

jeannette_ng

I've no particular desire to defend the classics but I do think the emerging dichotomy between toxic harmful classics and wholesome unproblematic diverse modern books is deeply reductive and unhelpful

Jessica Evans

JPenelope_Evans

UVM is cutting our Class Civ, Latin, Greek majors, Class Civ, Latin, Greek minors, and our MA and MAT programs. The department will be eliminated. I'm a lecturer, up for

Jessica Evans

JPenelope_Evans

@UVMHumanities I've been thinking about prison. Two years ago I taught mythology through the Liberal Arts in Prison Program at UVM at a women's prison. The course provided a space

Christopher Frey

FreyChristopher

So there are at least two things one can mean here by ‘exceptionalism’. I think one is descriptive and true, the other isn’t descriptive and false. So classical Greece/Rome is

Alison Doherty

alisoncdoherty

The classics vs YA discourse on twitter is dripping with white privilege and racism. Of course the literary cannon needs to be revised throughout time - that is literally the

Ash

MixedClassicist

Have you seen the awful article published last week, by an Oxbridge senior lecturer in classics, which argues that racism doesn't exist in the discipline and that attempts to decolonise

v ness: global pomegranate

theoctopiehole

Powerful words from @platanoclassics that give me pause at the same time: I can't help but wonder at the vast lacuna that this article has reproduced, which I find one

Jessica Evans

JPenelope_Evans

I've been thinking about the mixed messaging coming from UVM admin. They claim to support diversity, yet are cutting programs that, historically, BIPOC and women had far less access to

Moebius Stripper

moebius_strip

A lot going on in this thread that, uh, "argues" for teaching kids books that are more relevant to their lives than the classics, and here's what strikes me: this

David Bowles (Mācuīl Ehēcatl) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

You disgusting worms, I can read in TWELVE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. I have a MA in English and a doctorate in Education...... and EVEN I think that the "classics" are shit

David Dubrow

davedauthor

THE CLASSICSThere's been a bit of talk lately in reaction to a number of YA authors publicly trashing the classic works of literature that have been traditionally given to schoolchildren

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