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Davidson ends his book with an ominous image: While Aeschines is prosecuting Timarchus in 346 BCE for practicing homosexual prostitution in his youth—a warning sign in Athens of tyranny—he portrays an “anti-Athens?? of hollow zones and derelict buildings that “lurks still in the city’s crevices” amidst “unbridled appetites and animal passions”—waiting “like the abysmal Charybdis to swallow Athens down.” It’s still eerie...
...pursuit of truth may, at points, deem it necessary to affirm propositions likely to offend or contradict popular opinion. They deserve our society’s protection to shield them from impulsive legal sanction, enacted by a bestirred populace. The United States is not Socrates’s Athens??we allow our philosophers to pursue truth with impunity, even if we do not always honor them. The roused passions of the mob should not infringe upon the liberty of the intellect...
...computer for that matter. In “The Grande Promenade,” The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) staged a sprawling exhibition of 44 international artists. The brilliant “open museum”—with indoor and outdoor sites throughout downtown Athens??showcased both newly commissioned works meant to reflect the city’s famed archaeological sites and also previously conceived pieces by world-renowned contemporary artists. “The Grand Promenade” displayed a great variety of media, as well as a fascinating representation of artists...
...then, Taylor—who will be making her Olympic debut tomorrow morning in Athens??has always been one to raise a few eyebrows...
...rhetoricians amongst their number—and there are many in Athens??worked their wiles on the citizenry, who demanded more and more explanation for the war. They cynically linked the conquest of the Scythians with the Athenians’ own genuflective position within the Empire. The traditionally troublesome Greeks took their poisonous words to heart, and focused their bile on Narcissus, who is increasingly isolated...