Friday, 4 December 2020

Cyrus the Great’s 2550th Death Anniversary and the Real Kazakh Subsequent Movie Film

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  Ancient Babylonian calendars  make it possible to date the death of Cyrus the Great of Persia with reasonable accuracy to December 4 , 5...
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Thursday, 12 November 2020

Some Pindar for my Father

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  A dark day after a sleepless night. My father, the Revd. Prof. Stuart Hall, in his nineties in a Scottish care home, has contracted Covid....
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Friday, 6 November 2020

Defiant Good News re Doorstep Classics

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Whatever else is happening in the world, my project to expand provision of classical subjects in UK state education flourishes. I’m delight...
Saturday, 31 October 2020

Ancient Tips from Lucian for Halloween Costumes

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  On Halloween I’ve managed to get into the British Library for the first time in 6 months. The intention was to conduct some serious resear...
Monday, 26 October 2020

Caractacus Ap-Cymbeline Rides Again

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Newly Discovered Caractacus Coin-A Snip at £24,000 Regular readers of this blog or one-off readers of Greek Tragedy & the British Theatr...
Saturday, 17 October 2020

On Zoom-Age Academia and the Problematic Thomas Carlyle

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  The conditions of collective near-house-arrest get worse. Of course I’m worried about my father, in his nineties in a Scottish care home. ...
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Sunday, 11 October 2020

Why Little Girls Shouldn't Play Dido with their Dolls

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  On UN International Day of the Girl Child, by total coincidence I’ve read one of the memories recorded by Jane Welsh, later to marry Thoma...