How does our knowledge of classical antiquity relate to the present and its problems? How do we as classicists – to address at least a subset of my readers – engage with the world through our knowledge of the classical past, or is our chosen field of activity precisely a means of not engaging with the world? (more…)
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World in Motion
Posted in Musings, tagged classical reception, Go Went Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck, politics, refugees on September 19, 2017| Leave a Comment »