Ghost Town | Sphinx
The first two hundred metres after they turned off the highway were fine. Then Gregor’s head hit the roof of the car as it reached the end of the decent tarmac and lurched down at least five centim…| Sphinx
The first two hundred metres after they turned off the highway were fine. Then Gregor’s head hit the roof of the car as it reached the end of the decent tarmac and lurched down at least five centim…| Sphinx
In Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, one of my favourite novels of recent years, a mysterious and rather shady acquaintance of the narrator establishes a clinic for people suffering from Alzheimer’…| Sphinx
Unlike Thucydides, we made it to Amphipolis! Yes, I have been waiting over a year to make this joke.| Sphinx
It’s always interesting to realise how much I’ve unconsciously and unquestionably absorbed a set of assumptions. To judge from this week’s visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens with…| Sphinx
Thucydides of course anticipated the dynamics of social media.* On the one hand, there is the democratisation of opinion, with every Athenian citizen having not just a right but a duty to contribut…| Sphinx
You can’t spend a lot of time thinking about the modern reception of Thucydides without engaging with his place in Professional Military Education in the United States, which is plausibly responsib…| Sphinx
Thucydides may not be a wholly uncelebrated author, but it is rare that his name occurs in contexts outside politics and history – let alone in poetry or song; and so one of the rarer but not…| Sphinx
