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“The counter-intuitive idea of ‘arriving in a tradition,’ or ‘arriving backwards’ entails a subtle reordering of the ethnographic movement where journeys to different lands are regressive journeys back in time. Instead, past traditions—including by not limited to classical mythology—are seen as unfinished and carry over into the future.”
— Sep 16, 2026 02:10PM
“The counter-intuitive idea of ‘arriving in a tradition,’ or ‘arriving backwards’ entails a subtle reordering of the ethnographic movement where journeys to different lands are regressive journeys back in time. Instead, past traditions—including by not limited to classical mythology—are seen as unfinished and carry over into the future.”
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“In Britain Classics is still working through its putative relationship with the class hierarchy. In the Caribbean colonial context, with its pernicious race hierarchy, to beat metropolitan students was to defy implicit arguments about the inferiority of your people.”
— Sep 17, 2026 04:44AM
“In Britain Classics is still working through its putative relationship with the class hierarchy. In the Caribbean colonial context, with its pernicious race hierarchy, to beat metropolitan students was to defy implicit arguments about the inferiority of your people.”