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<b> 2026 Critical Antiquities Public Lecture: </b></div>
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<b>‘Blind Spot: Marxism in U.S. Classics.’ </b></div>
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The event will take place in a hybrid format, with the lecture delivered <b>on Zoom and an in-person element held at the Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom, University of Sydney</b>.<b> </b></div>
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<b>Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 9:30-11:30 (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra time). </b></div>
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Here is the abstract for Page’s lecture: </div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> G.E.M de Sainte-Croix, in his massive text The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World,
makes a crucial point about the avoidance of the term class in the work of historians of Greek and Roman antiquity: "Whereas descriptions of ancient society in terms of some category other than class--status, for instance--are perfectly innocuous, in the sense
that they have no direct relevance to the modern world . . . an analysis of Greek and Roman society in terms of class, in the specifically Marxist sense, is indeed . . . something threatening, something that speaks directly to every one of us today and insistently
demands to be applied to the contemporary world, of the second half of the twentieth century." (The Class Struggle, p. 45) The original first edition of this book contained a reproduction of Van Gogh's Potato Eaters, an image of the poverty and desolation
of the exploited and wretched of the earth.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> What I am concerned with in this lecture is the threat that de Sainte Croix sees, and the attempt to
thwart it, the hostility to Marxist theory, to anarchism, socialism, communalism and communism, that characterize the history of the United States of America, and the consequences for immigrants, people of color, women, queers, for university education, the
humanities, and the discipline of classical studies in particular. In this moment, when the US is being wracked by new leadership's descent into neofascism and return to unbridled imperialism, it's time to enrich critique with the legacy of Marxist critical
theory. This lecture derives from work in progress on the progressive voices in classical studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I consider some examples of US responses to Marxism in classics, including the cases of Moses Finley and Jean-Pierre
Vernant, then ask briefly: Could we use the theory of Antonio Gramsci to read Euripidean tragedy differently?</span></p>
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