Isn't it time to start winding Classics departments down? Or is there stuff still left to cover? I don't want to rush anybody, but I also feel like there's some more useful work in astronomy or materials science we could put these people on.
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We actually find and incorporate new evidence into our work all the time. Plus, it turns out that 1500 years of human life and culture stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to India can be analyzed in more than one way and offers a pretty rich field of study.
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One way out of the question is to certainly expand the borders of the field of inquiry. But at some point it's like posthumous 2Pac albums—you're going to run out of material.
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This is a pretty poor take in light of, say, Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation and scholars using classical studies to counteract white supremacist narratives of the ancient world. It's not always an either-or, and classics still benefit students.
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That's literally false. You can't dig a grave in a continuously inhabited Greek city without hitting 4 layers of history.
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If you’re a middle-class white man, yeah you’re probably not going to have anything new to say on the subject. Luckily there are lots more people in the world.
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As someone who works in Classics, there are still vast expanses of unexplored and underexplored material. And there’s also more new source materials being discovered or published all the time.
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Because my domain is primarily papyrology, I’ll give you an example from there. The Oxyrhnchus papyri (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_Papyri …) started publication over a century ago. At the current rate of publication, it will take about another century to work through the unpublished material.
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1 Classics are a lens on the present, which is a deep vein. 2 Is the grand goal to squeeze humanity for as much "scholarship" as quickly as possible? Why not let people guide their own intellectual lives? 3 Novelty has a strong pull across fields and mat. sci. costs real money
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