Harry Mount

Piling Pelion on Ossa

Bettany Hughes is the Nigella Lawson of the classical world — all tumbling raven curls and smoky-voiced seduction, as she takes telly viewers through the greatest hits of the olden days; recent programmes have covered the Spartans, Athens and the Bible.

  • The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

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    Jonathan Cape, pp. 486

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