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Classics Worth Studying — Here's Why | National Review


The Parthenon at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
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One classical scholar believes that the field is too implicated in ‘whiteness’ to survive as-is. Here’s why he’s wrong.
Rachel Poser’s recent
New York Times profile of Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta comes across as both glib and ominous. Referring to Padilla’s mission, the headline of the piece reads: “He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?” The Herculean task Padilla has in mind is convincing other classicists to reject the privileged position given to Greece and Rome within the field. Why? Because he believes that classics as a discipline has played and continues to play an outsize role in the construction of whiteness and, thus, the perpetuation of systemic racism. ....

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New York Times racialist vandals descend on Rome and Greece


New York Times racialist vandals descend on Rome and Greece
New York Times
Magazine published an article by
Harpers editor Rachel Poser about the work of Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a race-obsessed professor of Classics at Princeton University (“He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?”). Padilla upholds the view that his discipline the study of ancient Greek and Roman history and culture is a mainstay of the conception of “whiteness” and should be done away with.
In the famous painting by Jacques-Louis David in 1789, the year of the French Revolution, the founder of the Roman Republic, Lucius Junius Brutus, contemplates the fate of his sons, whom he put to death for conspiring to restore the monarchy. ....

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