Sunday, 27 September 2015

Gorillas from Carthage to Illinois

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Welcome to Planet Earth, Zach Diversionary topic this week, the first of full-on university term, has been gorillas. Kamba’s new baby ...
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Friday, 18 September 2015

Women, Classics, & the Labour Party

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Emma Reynolds MP, Sneerer of the Year The low point of the week for me was watching the sneer on Emma Reynolds’ face when Jeremy Corby...
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Thursday, 10 September 2015

Adventures with Aristotle in Germany and Greece

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Stressout of the week was delivering the annual Erasmus Lecture, the venue being the Technological University of Darmstadt. The stress w...
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Friday, 4 September 2015

What Position did Oedipus have Sex with his Mother In?

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Bijan Sheibani--Director of Almeida Oedipus Event I’m delighted to be discussing mother-son incest at a staged public workshop and rea...
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Friday, 28 August 2015

Drowning in Droves

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Zuwara docks last night   The death toll of migrants at the borders of Europe just keeps on rising. More than three hundred thousand h...
Saturday, 22 August 2015

DEMOCRATIC CRISES IN CORFU

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Feeling glum about the prospects for democracy in either Greece/the EU or the UK Labour Party, I sought solace in visiting the locatio...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015

An 18th-century Detective Trail: Sarah Fielding's Xenophon

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Success greeted my quest for the missing memorial to a Greek scholar who in 1762 published a fine translation of Xenophon’s Memorabilia ...
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