Herodotus and the Invention of History
Publisher: Reed Magazine
Author: Raymond Kierstead
Herodotus and the invention of history as another form of storytelling.
The Ancient World | Greece
Publisher: The Guardian
Author: Paul Cartledge
It had paid-up intellectuals and progressive politics, yet ancient Greece was less civil than we are inclined to remember. This news post explains why this is, and how are ancient perceptions can change through time, and translation.
The Iliad and what it can still tell us about war
Publisher: The Guardian
Author: Charlotte Higgins
As the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war holds the country in thrall, Charlotte Higgins reflects on the enduring power of a 3,000-year-old poem, and the eternal takeaways it possesses.
It’s All Greek to Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: The American Conservative
Author: Gary Brecher
A War Like No Other', Victor Davis Hanson, Random House.
The Gymnasium
Publisher: The Atlantic
Author: David William Cheever
"Education among the Greeks was peculiarly calculated for the development of the mind and the body in common. It is from this point of view that we wish to show the nature and preeminence of gymnastics in their times as compared with our own."