Is Reading Greek Mythology Toxic For Students?

That's the buzz at Columbia University, where students published an editorial complaining about reading Greek myths in one of their classes. They said in part:

Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is a fixture of Lit Hum, but like so many texts in the Western canon, it contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom. These texts, wrought with histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression, can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person o...