After watching an episode of Netflix’s the Crown and thinking about the decline of the British Empire and the rise… Read more Why the years start in Rome, the hours in Greenwich and there’s no .us on internet addresses
Category: Ancient widsom
Book review: The Trial of Socrates
In The Trial of Socrates, the prominent dissident journalist I. F. Stone takes a contrarian view of Socrates and shows that he is something other than the unalloyed saint he is often remembered as.
Hubris and Nemesis: or what the Ancient Greeks knew about beating the market
In Homer’s Iliad the heroes strike blows and fire arrows that on their own may not be enough to do… Read more Hubris and Nemesis: or what the Ancient Greeks knew about beating the market