Comments on: GRS Lecture Series http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/grs-lecture-series Committees exist to share blame. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:15:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jack http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/grs-lecture-series/comment-page-1#comment-72095 Jack Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:05:22 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/grs-lecture-series#comment-72095 That's totally it, too: The arrogant assumption that our culture is so dominant, so important, that it has to be careful about naming its parentage generally for fear of offending others. It's not like Chinese scholars call it "The Chinese Warring States Period" -- it's just called "The Warring States Period", even though we had warring states in Europe too. There's a weird kind of scholarly self-loathing or willful academic ignorance of history there, certainly a lack of poetry: The "Greek and Roman" period sounds kludgy compared to The "Classical" period. Worse, it disenfranchises all those Celts, Saxons, proto-Germans, Carthaginians, Franks, Slavs, Egyptians, Persians, Africans, Indians, Palestinians, & etc who contributed to our society! Racists. That’s totally it, too: The arrogant assumption that our culture is so dominant, so important, that it has to be careful about naming its parentage generally for fear of offending others. It’s not like Chinese scholars call it “The Chinese Warring States Period” — it’s just called “The Warring States Period”, even though we had warring states in Europe too.

There’s a weird kind of scholarly self-loathing or willful academic ignorance of history there, certainly a lack of poetry: The “Greek and Roman” period sounds kludgy compared to The “Classical” period. Worse, it disenfranchises all those Celts, Saxons, proto-Germans, Carthaginians, Franks, Slavs, Egyptians, Persians, Africans, Indians, Palestinians, & etc who contributed to our society! Racists.

]]> By: Don http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/grs-lecture-series/comment-page-1#comment-72094 Don Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:10:29 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/grs-lecture-series#comment-72094 <blockquote>There’s a series of Greek and Roman Studies lectures (they should call it “Classics” — why don’t they?)</blockquote> That would be privileging Greek and Roman society of that era above others, wouldn't it? Eurocentric labels must be destroyed.

There’s a series of Greek and Roman Studies lectures (they should call it “Classics” — why don’t they?)

That would be privileging Greek and Roman society of that era above others, wouldn’t it? Eurocentric labels must be destroyed.

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