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Frowned Upon

Greeks uncorked French passion for wine

23 Oct 2009

Professor Paul Cartledge finds that the Greeks, a people rarely known for their wine-making skills, nevertheless laid the foundations for the...

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Athens acropolis

The Athenians: Another warning from history?

02 Oct 2009

The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson...

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Olga Tribulato as Tiresias and Marta Zlatic as Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King, 2004

Greek tragedy: setting the stage today

01 Feb 2008

With the curtains just closed on the 40th Cambridge Greek Play since the 1880s, Greek classicist Simon Goldhill reflects on how this creative genre...

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Fellow's praise for a great Cambridge tree

26 Sep 2007

A famous tree that has given pleasure to generations of staff and students at a Cambridge college is being celebrated in a new presentation book.

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View of Copenhagen.

Happy Danes are here again

17 Apr 2007

Denmark tops the bill in a European happiness survey – but Britain is gloomier than most of its EU peers

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Growing Olives

Food and medicine in classical Greece: the ‘blurred boundary’

01 Apr 2007

What distinguishes a drug from food? Laurence Totelin traces the emergence of a definition in ancient Greece.

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Firefly

Lumora: how a firefly sparked a solution to food safety

01 Apr 2007

Food safety is a growing problem. The number of reported food poisoning cases in the UK has increased in the past 25 years from 23,000 to 80,000...

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