Paul Cartledge

Paul Cartledge explores the differences between today’s interpretation of the Olympic Games and their significance in the ancient world

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The Foundation of the Western WorldFreeman, Charles

Paul Cartledge considers how models of the past have been used in the Westminster version of 'people power'.

Paul Cartledge reconstructs the prison and execution-site of Socrates

Paul Cartledge on democracy - from ancient Greece to modern Eastern Europe.

Rebel without a cause? Paul Cartledge probes whether the chequered career of one of fifth-century Athens' most famous sons reveals more about conflicting codes of loyalty than just the machinations of a turncoat.

Though hymned by writers as an exemplum of Sparta's virtue, was Agesilaos the author as well as the spectator of her decline and fall?

The punishment of a rebellious client-state by Ancient Athens was the peg on which Thucydides hung an eloquent discussion of the morality of power and violence.

Paul Cartledge argues ancient history should be brought in from the cold.

Paul Cartledge finds a new work struggling to deal with the complexity of Greek ideas of monarchy