Peter Jones

Ancient and Modern – 29 August 2003

A classicist draws on ancient wisdom to illuminate contemporary follies

issue 30 August 2003

Year by year at exam results time, every Candice in the world points to her sheaves of A-grade A-levels and from the depths of her Pot Noodles ululates her indignation at the manifest injustice of her rejection by Oxbridge. Greeks would have thought such youths deranged: did they not know what it meant to compete?

The ancient Greek for ‘contest, competition’ is ag

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