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Sophocles

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Ancient Greek playwright representing traditional canonical literature that humanities students might study less of in favor of more diverse authors like Borges or Baldwin.

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"Wish i was a wealthy elite british man so i could attend Cambridge and read sophocles with my mates E.M Forster style"
cambridge in 1910s · u/204711200 · ↑38 · 2023-03-01
"It's perfectly fine, I think, if humanities students want to study more Borges or James Baldwin and less Sophocles, but there needs to be an idea of what value literature or poetry or philosophy have outside of serving as political propaganda."
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