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.
There is, and always has been, more to rosé than Mateus.
In 2006 I gave myself an OOPS award.
Plato’s cave, yes, Plato’s closet, no.
Plato is sometimes put to other uses. Chapter Twelve: Plato conscripted.
The Philosopher Monarchs.
These days to tell a student that Plato was an idealist condemns him to utter irrelevance.
Plato and Aristotle on King Street, Newtown.
What can a mere mortal say about Plato.
What is worse is that Socrates proposed ridiculous ideas like the equality of women!
Life, meaning, and death.
Continue reading “Chapter Nine: Enter Socrates and exit Sol.”
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.
