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The Gresham Festival of Musical Ideas

** This is a drop-in event, and attendees are welcome...

Conducter's hands over a backdrop of a rising sun, song bird, factory, greek statue and mathematical symbols

From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers

For many modern thinkers, the lawgiver has been important as...

five statues below a cartoon image of a lightbulb

Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek

The Hebrew lawgiver Moses was compared to ancient Greek lawgivers...

Engraving of Moses holding the ten commandements before his brethren

Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus

Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...

statue of Lycurgus, Lawgiver of Sparta coloured in yellow

Writing Laws: Hammurabi to Solon

When and why do written laws emerge in ancient societies...

Etching of Greek scribes

Making Sense of Conspiracy Theories

With Brexit, the US presidential election and the Covid pandemic...

Drawing of man with snakes writhing inside his head

Messaging and Signals

When we have information to share, we communicate. The development...

Actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr on a mobile phone creen

Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend

While Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens are now...

Painting of Lycurgus of Sparta holdaing scroll

The Ancient History of Computers and Code

What links an ancient shipwreck to the textile mills of...

Close up of weaving on loom with computer code floating over the top

Plato's Cave: Thinking about Climate Change

In The Republic, Plato explores the predicament of the Cave...

an underground cave