The last few years have seen a shock of new talent in Greek's cinema, with Giorgos Lanthimos'Dogtoothmarking the first time most Americans were made to take notice. The conceit is eyebrow-raising: A couple has raised their three children in isolation from the outside world, and to keep th...
The Peisistratids, as the succession of tyrants were called (after the founder of the dynasty, Peisistratos), strengthened Athenian central administration at the expense of the aristocracy by appointing judges throughout the region, producing Athens’ first national coinage, and adding and [#high...
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.”– Gandhi, Gandhi (1982) “Didn’t I tell you...
When tyrants’ crests and tombs of brass are spent. In Sonnet 145, the overall feeling of sadness is transferred in the rhyming sounds: in the first stanza, the correct EME pronunciation requires |come| to be pronounced as |doom|, CUM/DUM a high-back sound which is then be repeated in...
how memories that shape our lives might be created or crafted by our hearts: “Maybe on those hot summer afternoons, when coffee made women languid, when the scent of trellis roses mixed with the scent of ammonia, when girls pretended they were mothers while mother pretended something else ent...
When Sparta was named the victor in the long and cruel Peloponnesian War, a group known as the Thirty Tyrants was set up in Athens to administer the polis. This was a mean-spirited group of oligarchs, who tried to elicit Socrates' help to carry out their terrible plans. Everyone knew ...
The prince has been termed a manual for tyrants, the effect of which has been most harmful. But were Machiavelli's doctrines really new? Did he discover them? He merely had the frankness and cour- age to write down what everybody was thinking and what everybody knew. He merely gives us...