Is it cherry, strawberry, water melon, ruby grapefruit, or raspberry? Moi, je prefere raspberry.
La vie en rosé – Chapter Three.
“Pretty in Pink,” “Pink House,” “Arrogant Frog,” and others that I will not dignify by reference.
La vie en rosé – Chapter Two
The French defined a “noble grape,” purely objectively, as one that produced a fine table wine without the need to blend in another grape. By sheer coincidence all the grapes grown in France were noble, while none grown in Spain and Italy were.
Wait! I hear the pedants among you, as is to be expected, quibbling.
La vie en rosé – Chapter One
There is, and always has been, more to rosé than Mateus.
In 2006 I gave myself an OOPS award.
Chapter Twelve: Plato conscripted.
Plato’s cave, yes, Plato’s closet, no.
Plato is sometimes put to other uses. Chapter Twelve: Plato conscripted.
Chapter Eleven: Eidos.
The Philosopher Monarchs.
These days to tell a student that Plato was an idealist condemns him to utter irrelevance.
Chapter Ten: Aristocles (Plato).
Plato and Aristotle on King Street, Newtown.
What can a mere mortal say about Plato.
Chapter Nine: Enter Socrates and exit Sol.
What is worse is that Socrates proposed ridiculous ideas like the equality of women!
Life, meaning, and death.
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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.
The war that never ends continues.
Using the blog for teaching and research.
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.
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A fashion parade, well not quite.
Forced to be free.
Over the years I have accumulated mementoes from students.