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.
That's not really what I'm arguing, though. I'm intrigued by how a fixed body of knowledge can generate an unbounded amount of scholarship. I could imagine a world where people studied classical literature but didn't do original research in it; apparently that is very far away.
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Worth considering also how even if we ran out of artifacts to study our interpretation of them will change over time as we divest our cultural biases or gain new ones - or entirely new connections are made
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