Edith Hall
British classicist; professor of classics and ancient history at Durham University, writing on Greek literature, theatre and Aristotle; author of Aristotle's Way and Facing Down the Furies.
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Their wordsStarmer, who I believe to be a good and principled man, unfortunately sounds like a terminally depressed dalek
↗What a Difference a Voice Makes: Andy Burnham and Paul Cartledge's Periclesedithorial.blogspot.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Ed Miliband failed as Labour leader mainly because of his laboured, anxious way of speaking.
Their wordsEd Miliband, another principled and highly intelligent Labour politician, failed as leader of the Labour Party, as I suggested in a blog in 2012 and remain convinced, mainly on the ground of his laboured, anxious, adenoidal locution.
↗What a Difference a Voice Makes: Andy Burnham and Paul Cartledge's Periclesedithorial.blogspot.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsSome have access to training in skills to help them find employment on release, but far too few are helped to ask the big questions about their purpose in life, to which ancient Greek thought has rich answers.
↗Ancient Ideas and Modern Life Skills in UK Prisonsedithorial.blogspot.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI have found these sessions to be the most fulfilling experience of pedagogy in my entire working life.
↗Ancient Ideas and Modern Life Skills in UK Prisonsedithorial.blogspot.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 10 months earlier
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Their wordsSo there is one way to resist--through our everyday behaviours--the atmosphere of suspicion and ignorance the tyrant needs to foster, and that is to participate in a friendly manner in all such interactions and collective activities.
↗Preserving Democracy & Resisting Tyranny with Aristotleedithorial.blogspot.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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No tyrant has ever overwhelmed a community that behaved as if it were not ruled by a tyrant.
Their wordsDiscuss, debate, befriend, be kind: no tyrant has ever succeeded in overwhelming a community that behaved as if it were not ruled by a tyrant.
↗Preserving Democracy & Resisting Tyranny with Aristotleedithorial.blogspot.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Far too many academic classicists sneered at Classical Civilisation qualifications for decades.
Their wordsSadly, far too many academic classicists sneered at Classical Civilisation for several decades after its inception, although few now do so today.
↗Classics, Class and ‘Class. Civ.’ Qualifications in the 21st Centuryedithorial.blogspot.com