Sunday, 13 August 2017

Some Classical and presidential Left-Handers

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August 13 th is the 28 th International Left-Handers’ Day.  The usual journalistic response is to point out the disproportionate number ...
Saturday, 29 July 2017

How Virgil Framed Dido

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It’s been Phoenician-Carthaginian Week for me, culminating last night at the Proms in a BBC debate on ancient mariners with archa...
Sunday, 23 July 2017

A Year of Campaigning for Classics Education Begins!

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Devoted Current &Would-be Teachers of Class. Civ. at Cambridge 7 July The last three weeks consisted of serious and exciting work ...
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Sunday, 16 July 2017

Draco of Athens v. the Tolpuddle Martyrs

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Not Big Enough for modern teenagers I escaped to Rome and met a daughter backpacking with two friends. Two out of three expressed surp...
Sunday, 9 July 2017

Mother-Daughter Separation Blues

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Bacchae : Mum/Daughter-Free Tragedy Some inspiring developments this week, but I’m feeling too dyspeptic to do them justice and am pos...
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Sunday, 2 July 2017

UFOs Ancient and (Relatively) Modern

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World UFO day, ‘dedicated to the Existence of Unidentified Flying Objects’, is celebrated on July 2, the anniversary of the Roswell Inci...
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Saturday, 24 June 2017

What did the Greeks do for Ezra Pound & Should we Care?

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I spent half the week in Philadelphia giving a public lecture on that city’s most famous poet at the annual Ezra Pound Internationa...
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