Recently we've learned that there are billions of exoplanets in our galaxy. At least some of them will have ancient manuscripts, but no living classics scholars. And yet we can't even finish researching our own material. This is the xenoclassics crisis that keeps me up at night.
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although, in provoking what looks to have been an extremely civil and informed conversation, you may also have won :)
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That's just classicists' way of teabagging me in defeat. They know all the rhetorical tricks!
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FINISH HIM
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Not a classicist, but about universities: the mission of an academic department isn’t solely to discover new knowledge but also to preserve it. Unis are part of the collective memory of civilisation
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