'Fatal mistake': Oxford classics department considers removing Homer and Virgil from syllabus

Oxford University’s classics department is considering a move that would allow classics majors to graduate without reading Homer and Virgil.

Classics faculty members are considering removing Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid from the first stage of the classics degree, according to the university’s student newspaper, the Oxford Student. If the works are removed from the section, called Moderations, nowhere else in the major are the foundational epic poems required to be studied.