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In defence of Homer
Oxford is considering dropping the Odyssey and the Iliad from its compulsory classics papers.
Oxford University is on the brink of a scandalous act of cultural vandalism: it is considering removing the obligatory study of Homer and Virgil from its classics syllabus.
- Gareth Sturdy
- © spiked
The university was founded on the principle of opening up the treasures of Greek and Roman culture to scholarship in order to end the ignorance of the Dark Ages.
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