"New Orleans," wrote A. J. Liebling in 1961, lies "within the orbit of a Hellenistic world that never touched the North Atlantic." Each May, New Orleanians are reminded of their city's Grecian aura at ...
Mr. Nicolson is an English author who writes about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. His latest book is “How to Be: Life Lessons From the Early Greeks.” A few years ago, my wife, Sarah ...
Geography is destiny for nations, and history the proof. The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment (a word we take from the Old French viron, circuit). The Romans applied Greek ...
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