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doi 10.1215/0961754X-1544995 Common Knowledge 18:2 © 2012 by Duke University Press Page DuBois, Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 236 pp. Common KnoWLEDgE The field of study we call Classics is an ideological construction. It assumes that the Greece and Rome of antiquity belong to the modern West in some singular, privileged wayâas our antiquity, their works our classicsâand that these civilizations were largely self-invented. In this antiquity, there is no diaspora, no hybrids, no minorities, often no women or slaves. Democratic, philosophical Athens is the antitype of a cosmopolis: hermetic, autochthonous, owing nothing to the civilizations of Africa, India, or the Near East. But the classical lines of demarcation and exclusion have eroded under globalization. We are beginning to understand how antiquity was everywhere mixed and riven by difference. DuBois envisions a new classical studies, less insular, engaged with larger debates in the humanities. She brings a classical scholarâs expert knowledge on Alexander, Epimenides, Oedipus, Spartacus, and St. Paul to bear on questions in the work of Agamben, Badiou, Butler, Negri, and Rancière. She reads Sappho and exposes the impulse of scholarship to efface the traces of the past, transfixed
Common Knowledge – Duke University Press
Published: Mar 20, 2012
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