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Friday Jun 14, 2019
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Friday Jun 14, 2019
Friday Jun 14, 2019
Thucydides: historian, political theorist, strategist, psychologist - and all-purpose authority whenever you’ve got a stray quote about war, politics or power that’s looking for an attribution. This podcast is dedicated to my rather niche obsession with correcting fake Thucydides quotes, and, rather more constructively, thinking about what they might tell us.
I’m Neville Morley, and I teach classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter in south-west England, with a particular interest in how classical antiquity - not only Thucydides, but lots of Thucydides - gets used and abused in the present.
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