Featured in A.E Housman’s collection of poems A Shropshire Lad, “On the Idle Hill of Summer” describes the onset of conflict in the English countryside.
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Robert F Kennedy repeatedly found solace and meaning in the works of the Athenian Tragedian, Aeschylus.
The only way to prevent meritocracy from becoming a myth is by seeking inspiration and energy from outside the capital.
“If I go for a walk in the park, what’s my risk?” asks Professor Robert Winston. He is midway through an impassioned list of Covid-19
“Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen / Nobody knows but Jesus”. These lines, especially as sung by Billie Holiday, may reverberate in these troubled days
In the fifth century B.C., the playwright Sophocles begins “Oedipus Tyrannos” with the title character struggling to identify the cause of a plague striking his
In the 1st century AD, Roman politics effectively ceased to exist. After Augustus’ total victory in the civil wars of the late Republic, power and
In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek
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