Wednesday, 22 August 2018

A Short History of Class Divisiveness in British Classics

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2018 has seen the irruption into the public sphere of longstanding disagreements within the British Classics education world about th...
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Wednesday, 15 August 2018

A Short History of the Term Demagogue

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Greek cartoon version of Knights With loudmouthed ‘populist’ leaders everywhere in the news, we often hear the pejorative word demago...
Sunday, 5 August 2018

Antony & Cleopatra in London and Aristotle in Oxford

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As the heatwave grinds on, I found myself talking this week about two titans of the classical world, Mark Antony and Aristotle.    In ...
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Sunday, 15 July 2018

Escape to Asclepieion! On Visiting Greece at the Right Time

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With Dr L. Papadopoulos and Sarah Poynder Despite unprecedented Brexit/Trump shithousery at home, or perhaps because I had escaped ...
Friday, 6 July 2018

Enlisting Lucian in the Aristotle vs. Neo-Stoic Debate

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I marked the publication of my book Aristotle’s Way with an article on his route to happiness in the excellent free online magazine Aeon ...
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Sunday, 17 June 2018

The Sudden Topicality of Shakespeare's BREXIT Cymbeline

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Coin of Cynobelinus King of Britain How about writing a play about a British leader manipulated into leaving a peaceful alliance with...
Saturday, 9 June 2018

A Deadly Serious Blog about Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide

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Two high-profile suicides in a week have left many of us rattled. I know nothing of fashion and hadn’t heard of Kate Spade. I was scarcel...