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Posts from the ‘History’ Category

40August 25, 2010The vapors of Delphi

95August 18, 2010Somewhere between Apollo & Dionysus

46July 30, 2010Competitive Christians on poles

95July 21, 2010In praise of sublime Greek violence

19July 15, 2010They can’t stop writing about Hannibal

65July 10, 2010Justice: by truth or victory?

14July 1, 2010Greatest thinkers: Greeks or Germans?

40June 29, 2010How Muhammad created Europe

21June 16, 2010Hair in politics

30June 4, 2010Roman Jefferson v Carthaginian Hamilton

88June 2, 2010The importance of the first reader

53May 29, 2010The wrong heroine: Joan of Arc

45May 24, 2010The Alexandrian Solution

49May 23, 2010Complexity and collapse

54May 17, 2010What Polybius said about the Tea Party

20May 13, 2010Hannibal, Fabius & Scipio in Missouri

33May 10, 2010The Greeks: plus ça change…

40May 1, 2010Carthage’s urns of little bones

61April 25, 2010French & Anglo-Saxon ways of thinking

28April 18, 2010My 12-minute “book teaser”