The school did this even though no one complained. Is this what studying the classics is going to become like?The College Fix reports:
To avoid offending students, UK university edits classic Greek poem, removing mention of domestic violenceEngland recently cut several lines referring to domestic violence from a classic Greek poem to avoid offending students.The 2,000-year-old poem, Types of Women, by Semonides of Amorgos, is taught to first-year classics students at the school and makes reference to silencing women through violence.Documents obtained by The UK Daily Mail include a statement by school administrators:“The portion of the poem now omitted involved a brief reference to domestic violence,” read the statement. “That portion has subsequently been removed because, while the text as a whole is vitriolic, that part seemed unnecessarily unpleasant and (potentially) triggering.”According to the school, no student had complained about the poem.“This is beyond naive,” Jeremy Black, emeritus professor of history at the University of Exeter, told the Daily Mail. “It is positively ridiculous and has no place in academia.”“If we applied this same kind of censorship to the news we would end up with a most limited and ignorant view of the world,” said Black.The poem declares God made ten different types of women:
“One type is from a pig—a hairy sowwhose house is like a rolling heap of filth;and she herself, unbathed, in unwashed clothes,reposes on the shit-pile, growing fat.”
Conversely:
“Another type the gods made from a fox:pure evil, and aware of everything.This woman misses nothing: good or bad,she notices, considers, and declaresthat good is bad and bad is good. Her moodchanges from one moment to the next.”Semonides suggests it is impossible to silence some types of women, even with physical violence:
“One type is from a dog—a no-good bitch,a mother through and through; she wants to heareverything, know everything, go everywhere,and stick her nose in everything, and barkwhether she sees anyone or not.A man can’t stop her barking; not with threats,not (when he’s had enough) by knocking outher teeth with a stone, and not with sweet talk either;even among guests, she’ll sit and yap;the onslaught of her voice cannot be stopped.”
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