Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Frogs v. Absolute Monarchs at Versailles

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Yesterday, thanks to my French-resident big sister Nicky Nicholson, I came face-to-face with the class war in France. On a trip to Versa...
Sunday, 18 December 2016

'Populism' & Tyranny in Cloudcuckooland

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A lecture on Aristophanes’ Birds I gave in October at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens has just gone online on youtu...
Sunday, 4 December 2016

Is Every Classically Educated Female a Virago?

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‘Must we suppose that if a woman knows a little Greek and Latin she must be a drunkard, and virago?’ Thus wrote Anne Donnellan in 1762. Sh...
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Sunday, 27 November 2016

DEAD FUNNY: Comic Underworlds Ancient & Modern

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Fidel, Rejuvenated, Snapped crossing the Styx Yesterday As Fidel Castro sails off on Charon’s ferry to the Underworld, perhaps he will...
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Sunday, 20 November 2016

Why Greek Tragedy and Christianity Don't Mix

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I’m pleased that a review I had almost forgotten writing is featured as one of the ‘free-on-line’ essays in the current edition of the...
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Sunday, 13 November 2016

Liberty Headgear Ancient and Modern

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Happy 13 th (Ides) of November, or Feroniae , the 'freedom festival' when Romans celebrated the central Italian goddess Feronia...
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Saturday, 5 November 2016

Brexit & the Gunpowder Plot: Very British Cock-Ups

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"Anyone got an umbrella?" Today is the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot by which some English Catholics planned to blow up ...
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