DAVID M. PRITCHARD

What is the value of Olympic victory?

Relay runners are now carrying the Olympic Torch to Paris. With the 2024 Olympics fast approaching, debate is again heating up about how much countries spend on national Olympic teams.

Honoring the war dead in Ancient Athens and today

French people are often surprised that foreigners come to France to study ancient Greece. It is easy for them to understand why foreign philosophers might go there.

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An ancient reason for hope in Ukraine

Europeans still hope that Ukraine can win the current shocking war. Many also continue to hope that democracy will be a major reason why the Ukrainians will be victorious. I believe that ancient history can help us to decide whether such hopes are reasonable or unrealistic.

28.07.2021 / 23:00

What’s the point of Olympic teams?

The Greeks would have been horrified at our subsidization of an Olympic team.

DAVID M. PRITCHARD

What is the value of Olympic victory?

Honoring the war dead in Ancient Athens and today

An ancient reason for hope in Ukraine

What’s the point of Olympic teams?

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