The war that never ends continues.
Chapter Eight. Lysistrada et al.
Thucydides is a great, but a serious reader should also try Donald Kagan’s four volume study of the war.
Thucydides is a great, but a serious reader should also try Donald Kagan’s four volume study of the war.
The war that never ends continues.
I replied to the questions in a recording which is attached
I had an inquiry from a research centre on campus about the use of the blog for teaching and research.
Continue reading “Using the blog for teaching and research.”
Forced to be free.
Over the years I have accumulated mementoes from students.
The war that never ended took a turn for the worse at Melos.
Celebricrats are famous for being famous, and nothing else. It is not about talent or achievement.
If the celebrities are leaders, who are their followers? And why?
Heretofore I preferred SBS news because it was crisp, moved fast to cover the ground in the time available so that there was no time for journalistic pontificating. I also thought there was a little more restraint in SBS News, and a little less advocacy than on the ABC.
Journalists have long since given up reporting facts and letting viewers and readers draw their own conclusions.
Warts and all.
His debauchery was an open secret.
My essay “Cracking the Thucydides code” has appeared recently in the Antioch Review, a literary magazine of some note. It is the kind of publication many large libraries have.
Alexander the Great sent Aristotle an elephant. Imagine the Brown UPS agent who had to deliver that. Imaigne what Aristotle had to pay to house and feed the thing.
Aristotle was something of a character in his own time, an omnivore with an appetite for all knowledge, collecting mollusks, geodes, plants, animals, and books. He is credited with the first private library so large was his collection of books (scrolls). Any foreigner visiting Athens, whether theorist-tourist or not, might sell to Aristotle artifacts collected on the voyage.
Continue reading “Chapter Five: a little Aristotle, please.”