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That pressure has prompted a lot of classicists to think and argue really hard about what Classics needs to be in a modern university. Those discussions are fair and good. But debates about what Classics should be won't matter if we don't have a field by the time we decide.
Here I think @DrMichaelJTayl1's perspective is valuable, teaching at a university - a flagship, 'R1' state school, no less - which disbanded its Classics department a decade ago. Taylor is essentially writing from the post-Classics future.
Our future, I fear, if we do nothing.
I hope this essay will get some readers excited about the Classics, but more to the point I hope it can be an example of the sort of arguments we need to be prepared to deploy when arguing for a place for Classics in funding, teaching and in the public consciousness.
Classics is a discipline that has never had to explain why it was important or should be taught - for the first 2000+ years, it was assumed to be self-evidently obvious why this study was valuable. That's no longer true and so we have got to learn to argue for our discipline.
Oh, wow! A piece of history I actually experienced. I remember that October day when the President gathered everyone to tell us departments were being shut down. I was a grad student in physics but made sure to take an Intensive French class before those professors jumped ship.
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