Areopagos
Category: Theory
School’s out!
Finding the Lyceum. Maybe.
Searching for Mr Aristotle
The above image of Aristotle is the wallpaper on my hand held computer-telephone such is my allegiance to The Philosopher, as Thomas Hobbes called him.
Agora! Agora! Agora!
The Stoa is a mall but Visa was not accepted.
Socrates was a gadfly on the rump of Athens, usually in the Agora.
It had to be you … Melos
Who were the Melians? Do the Kykladic figures play a role in any answer?
Thucydides sent me to Melos. Mission accomplished, Hegemon.
Yes, we have no tomatoes!
Syssitia is not symposia, just remember that.
When in Athens eat as the Ancient Athenians did.
Acropolis Now!
I am just glad to have seen the replica in Nashville (see August 2007) to have an idea what the real thing might have looked like.
Wasn’t that the title of some tedious television series about pizza delivery, or am I thinking of West Wing?
My Big Fat Greek Trip
Bleaders unite! You have nothing to lose. Really.
The anticipation of going to Greece
Why didn’t I do this sooner?
Having spent a lot of time in a mental Greece, now I am going to see something of the real thing.
Theory is everywhere
Echo yes, but all noise and no signal.
Just when the coast seems clear, theory appears!
Is political theory nothing more than poetry?
The poetry of A D Hope is worth reading.
A reader raised this question, though in a rather different tone.
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