“This actress has a Master’s in Fine Arts from Yale”. How in the hell can anyone even have an undergrad degree in Fine Arts from any university without having read the Classics? Es ridiculo. Fine Arts, my ass...
My parents had bought Bullfinch’s Mythology to get bro and I interested in the Classics at an early age-it worked-I started checking out individual books of stories at the library in town-the Classics are interesting stories. The Classics were also included in some HS classes-some were required reading in the honors English course I took in my senior year of HS, but I haven’t heard of a HS offering anything like that in several decades. I still have the Bullfinch’s my parents bought for us as kids.
It is one thing to take liberties with the race/ethnic group and sex of major characters in movies based on recent works of fiction-but the Classics and other works that have been read by millions of people-and are many centuries old and often based on some degree of historical fact are another matter. They are a screenshot of the beliefs and behaviors of the far past-not a vehicle for virtue signalling and PC...
Is an Asian Mr Darcy-or a Black Elizabeth next? Or maybe King Arthur as an Asian-a Samurai warrior-or an Opera with a blonde, Caucasian Madame Butterfly...
We already have a black “Alexander Hamilton” ... which is ridiculous.