There seems to be a real disconnect between the things classicists think connect with the public and thus do in 'public facing' forums and what - it seems to me - actually connects with the public? 1/16
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So, we need to do both, but we also need to be aware that the field cannot survive if all we do is train classicists to train other classicists. At some point, the river must meet the sea - there has to be a general public sense that what we do is good and necessary *generally.*
I've been to a number of 'save the classics' discussions where at least some of the comments boiled down to, "we need more undergrads to train more high school Latin teachers to get more undergrads" in an endless loop. That loop is important, but it will not save us.
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I think a stronger public sense of "Cicero and Homer and Plato (and Gilgamesh and Hammurabi) are important things most educated people should know" is the way out - that puts undergrads in seats and creates demand to learn the languages to interact with the texts.
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There is indeed a conceptual difference between outreach (recruitment) and knowledge transfer (blogs, podcasts, youtube). Depts are overwhelmingly focused on the former; they see the latter as an optional side project. There's fairly obvious institutional reasons for this
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Yes, I suppose my question is what public facing stuff serves this goal? Because the popular stuff will, I suspect, generally be more what meets the expectations of the already interested audience; how do we go beyond that to showing the general significance of the discipline?
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So...I do ancient history on the internet and sometimes I do that ancient history to popular pop culture things, like Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica. My very rough sense is that the ancient history part of that stuff is new to most of my readers.
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