Abstract/Summary

In this endpiece, I briefly site the decolonising agenda within Classics in some relevant historical contexts, including wider history and trends within classical scholarship. I consider my own role as beneficiary of social and disciplinary changes, and conversely as a contributor to new kinds of criticism. I point to scholarship that investigates how disciplinary change comes about, even in the history of the American Philological Association (now the Society for Classical Studies). I offer the history of women classicists as an encouraging paradigm for how groups previously excluded can flourish within a discipline and come to occupy leadership roles in its professional structures.