For April, our Book Club selection is the Characters of Theophrastus, brief outlines or sketches of thirty moral types. Discussion starts and continues in the Forum; Zoom meeting Tuesday, April 25 at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
"Mark the situation, men of Athens: mark the pitch which the man's outrageous insolence has reached" Our Book Club for March will focus on speeches of Demosthenes, the Athenian orator. Discussion starts and continues in the Forum; Zoom meeting Tuesday March 28 at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
My husband and I finally took the Mediterranean cruise we originally had planned for 2020. It is humbling to stand where people stood so many years ago, and to reflect on how similar they were to us. Read more
We are pleased to share a revised translation of selections from Book 2 of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War that tracks Key terms. These selections include Pericles' Funeral Oration, the plague in Athens, Pericles' last speech, and Thucydides' assessment of Pericles. Read more
As long as people have been trading with each other, they have created debt. And as long as people have created debt, some have been unable to pay what they owe. This was as true in ancient Athens as it is today. Before about the 6th century BCE in Attica, among a population consisting primarily of peasants and small farmers, borrowing occurred among members of local communities. Read more
