What a song and dance about a tax rise affecting a minuscule proportion of the richest in society! Greeks would have been baffled.
Classical Greeks did not have the automatic admiration for self-made millionaires that we do. They felt that only the very lucky or the very wicked could aspire to wealth.
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In the British Museum on 22 February, Peter Jones will introduce participants to ‘Ancient Greek from scratch’ (Google ‘Alpha Museum February 22’).
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