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From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers

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

Pagan witchcraft, especially in its first publicly apparent form of...

The ancient Druids have long represented some of the most...

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

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

Until the nineteenth century, the favourite ancient pagan gods in...

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

This lecture looks at how and why a particular form...

This lecture provides a deeper exploration of Paganism, beginning with...

Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...