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Tyrant Slayers
Thoughts on the day Muammar Gaddafi was killed This will be a crucial day in Libya’s history – so much is certain. The day a tyrant dies cannot be anything else. But what will we, what will the Libyans remember? … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, Inventing the Past
Tagged Athens, Democracy, Libya, Tyrant slayers, Tyrants
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Building the Parthenon
It’s time to talk about the photograph at the top of my blog. It’s part of a picture I took on the Acropolis of Athens in summer 2007: let’s call it The Parthenon Under Construction (Again). Of course, ancient buildings … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Inventing the Past
Tagged Athens, Byzantine Greece, Classicism, Greece, Ottoman Greece, Restoration, Ruins
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