Sunday, 11 April 2021

Countering Misery with Greek Authors beginning with A

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  I have not been able to blog for weeks during the worst professional time of my entire working life. I will be able to explain in more d...
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Sunday, 21 February 2021

On Not Apologising for Teaching and Promoting "Classics"

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  Around the beginning of the 18 th century, the study of the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans and the languages they spoke began t...
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Sunday, 24 January 2021

Why Honduran Sexist Lawmakers need Aristotle's Advice

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  So Honduras looks set to pass a bill which will make it impossible for abortion under any circumstances (including rape and incest) ever ...
Friday, 8 January 2021

Elisabetta Sirani's Classical Heroines Keeping Calm and Carrying On

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Less famous than Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabetta Sirani, born this day 1638, is my favourite Italian painter. She lived her belief in wome...
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Saturday, 2 January 2021

How My Favourite (Ovidian?) Painting Has Helped Me in Lockdown

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  During the   confinements of the last ten months, virtual art galleries have provided comfort. On the anniversary of Piero di Cosimo’s bir...
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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