![]() ![]() ![]() What happened to the memory of Greece? With clarity and insight Warner writes (pg.79) “Leaders of the parties both had programmes which looked admirable – on one side political equality for all citizens, on the other sound and honest administration – but in fact what each party was interested in was not the public good, but power for themselves. The European Union is fracturing at the seams the result of political aggrandisement through monetary union is tearing Greece (Spain, Italy, and Ireland) apart. Now when I read this book I think of the present and more recent past. Rex Warner was a Professor of the University of Connecticut from 1964 until his. ![]() It is individuals, not nations, who better themselves through war there are correspondingly many losers. The first of the scientific historians, Thucydides makes use of. It’s only as I grew older, and learnt about other wars, that I became conscious of the timelessness of the lessons ‘taught’ by war, which we invariably ignore in the pursuit of economic and political gain dressed up as democracy and noble cause. I must have been about nine or ten when I first read this book, enjoying it as a thoroughly good story. ![]()
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