Thucydides was born in around 460 BC in Alimos, Athens. Little is known about his early life, and all that scholars know of him at
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I’ve been learning about the Persian Wars recently, and am currently doing a MOOC with Hillsdale College and some Massolit courses on the subject. You
The Meno begins with Meno asking Socrates a question: Can virtue be taught, or is it only learnt through experience, or is one simply virtuous
This is summary is a type-up of some notes I took while doing a MOOC with Hillsdale College (the Michigan university I’d love to go
This summary of Ancient Sparta is a type-up of my notes on an excellent Massolit course by Prof. Paul Cartledge of Clare College, Cambridge. Perhaps
This week, I’m doing another course with Academus (I did an Ancient Greek one last week), this time on classical studies. I got to choose
This week from Monday to Friday I did an online intensive course on Ancient Greek! The schedule worked like this: lessons 10am-1pm, lunch break 1pm-2pm,
Book One Herodotus begins his Histories with an opening sentence that states his intentions in writing the account: he aims to record the deeds of
This is an analysis of the writer Herodotus himself and the background and context that led to his account The Histories. I’m going to be
I loved this play! It was certainly one of my favourites of Euripides’. It tells the post-Trojan-War story of three women: Andromache, wife of Hector