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		<title>Successors to Augustus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 20:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;· The Julio-Claudian Dynasty ·&#160; Much already exists, in print and on the Internet, about ancient Rome&#160;;&#160; most of it deals with the conflicts fought and lands conquered by her leaders.&#160; A rehearsal of that material here is unnecessary&#160;;&#160; a summary of the family tree of the dynasty founded by Augustus might, however, interest the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augustus is coming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[· · · · · Listen to Boris talk about the Roman emperor Augustus this Friday, 21st. May, on Radio 4 at 9.45 a.m., repeated at 7.45 p.m. and on Saturday at 12.30 a.m.   · · · · · Although Rome’s empire grew throughout the late republic — from the middle of the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Greece : Index</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lessons of the Past Boris Johnson has spoken of the contribution a knowledge of the classics can make to understanding our own times. In the modern political world — as in the ancient — the same theme is played out again and again … with the same characters : political leaders that let power go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Greece :  Pericles (Part III)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boris Johnson has often spoken of his love of Greek history and of Pericles in particular. When asked who his historical pin-up was and why, he replied: “Pericles. Look at his Funeral Speech: democracy; freedom — champion stuff.” &#8212;&#160;Read the full interview. A few years ago he went to the British Museum and bought a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Greece :  Pericles (Part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boris Johnson has often spoken of his love of Greek history and of Pericles in particular. When asked who his historical pin-up was and why, he replied: “Pericles. Look at his Funeral Speech: democracy; freedom — champion stuff.” Read the full interview. A few years ago he went to the British Museum and bought a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Greece :  Pericles (Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boris Johnson has often spoken of his love of Greek history and of Pericles in particular. When asked who his historical pin-up was and why, he replied: “Pericles. Look at his Funeral Speech: democracy; freedom — champion stuff.” See here for the full interview. A few years ago he went to the British Museum and bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Greece:  The Archaic Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Temple of Zeus at Nemea Boris Johnson has spoken of the contribution a knowledge of the classics can make to understanding our own times. In the modern political world — as in the ancient — the same theme is played out again and again &#8230; with the same characters : political leaders that let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Greece&#160;:&#160;&#160;Ostracism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  An ostrakon with the name and patronymic (indicating his father) of the nominee, Cimon, son of Miltiades *       *       * To-day the term ‘ostracism’ is often used loosely to allude to exclusion from a social group :  what school-children might call ‘sending some-one to Coventry’ ;  it is, however, a specific procedure with origin in ancient Athens. Ostracism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Samuel Johnson:  300th Anniversary of his birth this week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know what, I doubt whether he&#8217;d even get a column in today&#8217;s newspapers. No one would dare hire him. If Dr Johnson were writing in modern Fleet Street, his views would be denounced as utterly outrageous. Foreign ambassadors would be constantly on the Today programme, demanding apologies for the insult done to their country. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Greece:  The Oracle at Delphi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See an illustrative video clip here THE ORACLE AT DELPHI The Greeks consulted the Oracle at Delphi in fear, hoping for reassurance that they would be saved.  The priestess of the Oracle at Delphi was known as the Pythia.  The god Apollo spoke through this Oracle, who had to be an older woman of blameless [...]]]></description>
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