Sunday, 16 January 2022

Boris Johnson, Tragedy and the Goat-Song

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Of his multiple crimes against the electorate, truth and humanity, it’s hardly the most serious, but I resent that Boris Johnson has brought...
Saturday, 23 October 2021

Remembering Who I am in Padua

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  After an unpleasant academic year 2020-2021, my sanity has finally been restored this week by my first ever visit to Padua (a solo journey...
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Thursday, 14 October 2021

On Being UnStoic in Zeno's Cypriot Birthplace

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  My Favourite Paphos Mosaic: Ikarios Invents Wine Regular readers will know that I am neither temperamentally nor philosophically impressed...
Sunday, 3 October 2021

Plutarch's Ten Top Tips for Freshers' Week

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When Plutarch’s young friend Nicander started university, the writer sent him a treatise with advice on how to listen to lectures,  De recta...
Saturday, 11 September 2021

On Feeling Like Ronaldo

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  Ancient allegations that for selfish reasons I move between jobs too often have recently resurfaced. This blog is designed to put the reco...
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Monday, 30 August 2021

The Weirdest Royal Wedding: Antiochus and Stratonice

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  It is Jacques-Louis David’s birthday. He is all too familiar amongst classicists because his paintings ‘The Sabine Women’, ‘The Death of S...
Sunday, 18 July 2021

Tories, Tyrants & Tall Poppies

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  In this week’s incoherent speech ‘explaining’ his ‘levelling up policy', delivered at a West Midlands battery factory where he had app...
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