Source: The Dispatch
by Megan Dent
“The discipline called classics — the study of ancient Rome and Greece, and their civilizations and languages — is an area of study rife with theoretical arguments and often abstract ideas, given that its languages and cultures live only in memory. Often viewed as a vestige of the elite, and most often taught to future presidents and prime ministers in expensive private schools, classics is, by definition, Western-centric. And it has come under heavy scrutiny from certain academics over the last few decades. One recent example of that scrutiny is a volume called Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics, published by Routledge last year.” (10/20/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/classics-ideology-education-critical-accessibility/