Us Then: Chapter II - "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly’
Polybius, History, and Human Nature For Polybius, as for Thucydides, human nature was the key causative factor in history, apart from ...
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The Ancient Contribution to Climate Change
For World Mother Earth Day Thursday 22 April 2021 Just like us, the Greeks and Romans were adept at exploiting the environment for their...
Prime Ministers and Proconsuls
12/04/2021 Whilst reading a short piece by Quintus Slide in the latest issue of my husband’s MoneyWeek (9/04/2021), I was struck by an...
SOLON, FAREWELL!A Herodotean Lesson for our Times.
The Histories of Herodotus are a lively, varied, and highly readable work, a rather lighter experience than the gloomy, disgruntled...
#Friends, Romans, Countryman
WHAT WOULD THE ROMANS HAVE MADE OF SOCIAL MEDIA? ‘Write the Facebook page of (insert famous ancient figure)’ as a revision activity has...
Us Then: Intro and Chapter 1
Intro: The Classical Mirror All languages open up new worlds, new peoples, and new ideas, illuminating the awe-inspiring diversity of the...
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