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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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?
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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I also do a fair bit of 'ancient history can help you understand <current event>' in places like
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I suppose if I was structuring a Classics-for-the-Public publication, I'd probably want a mix of 1) the ancient literature behind your modern pop culture, 2) the ancient history behind your current events and 3) cool things archaeology can teach us (the latter is always a winner)
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