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Ancient and modern

Boris Johnson is no Pericles

19 October 2024

9:00 AM

19 October 2024

9:00 AM

Boris Johnson’s Unleashed imagines him, like Cincinnatus, leaving his plough, saving Rome, and returning to it. But given that Boris is among the international elite, perhaps Alcibiades (c. 451-404 bc) would fit him better.

Athenian elites had long had connections with the other power-brokers of the classical Greek world, Sparta and Persia.

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