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Tag Archives: Ancient Athens
Why Boris should have remembered the Ostracism of Hyperbolus
UK Politics is just too distracting these days. Today we arrived at a point where both main parties are in the middle of differently shambolic leadership contests. These last few crazy days have brought to mind quite a few ancient parallels … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, Greece, Politics
Tagged Alcibiades, Ancient Athens, Democracy, Hyperbolus, Nicias, Ostracism
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On Pledges Carved in Stone
Yesterday, just four days before the election, the Leader of the UK Labour Party, Ed Miliband, unveiled an eight-foot limestone slab, carved with his six main election promises. Reviews were mixed, but it was a delight to all who regularly get … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Current events, Politics
Tagged Ancient Athens, Democracy, Epigraphy, Inscriptions
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Greek Treasures: ancient and modern
I just came across this opinion piece in the LA times of 26th February by James Romm, a scholar I admire greatly. But here he offers an example of highly emotional rhetoric which is historically unjustified. At the same time, his article … Continue reading
Posted in History, Inventing the Past
Tagged Ancient Athens, Greece, Greek crisis, Parthenon, Pericles, Thucydides
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Higher Education in the Marketplace
Sometime towards the end of the fifth century BC the young Athenian Xenophon encountered a man in a narrow side street. The man blocked his way and asked where every kind of food was sold. Once he had received a reply, he asked another … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Universities
Tagged Ancient Athens, Independent Thinking, Lectures, Socrates, Tutorials, University Market, University Teaching
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