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Ancient Greeks
Aristotle thought that, while there was a sense of pleasure at the prospect of getting your own back, there was a limit as to how far one should go
In democratic Athens (fifth century BC), free speech in the citizens’ assembly and the courts was called isêgoria, meaning ‘equality of speaking’
His exploit gained him the prestige he longed for, and in 424 BC he was made a general
Why do we not have more free time, and when we do, why do we waste it?
In Greek, dêmagôgos was a neutral term meaning ‘leader of the people.’ But it could be used to describe a rabble rouser
Robin Lane Fox has been teaching the epics for fifty years and studying them for many more
The young had all gone up to the terrace, taken bottles of vodka, downed it and then politely left thanking the wife
Their display in the Duveen gallery of the British Museum in London is not impressive
What they would have given to be alive today!
The first 100 lines of the Iliad may contain the first description of something like Covid
