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“... and pluralism. In the preamble to Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece, Ian Worthington promises that both these problems – the relative proportions of pragmatism and ideology in Demosthenes’ motivation, and the degree of blame he deserves for the failure of the Athenian cause – will be confronted head-on. ‘Should blame ...”

“... Almost 35 years ago, the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos opened a large, unplundered chamber tomb in the northern Greek village of Vergina, and a great controversy began. The tomb housed the cremated remains of a man aged between 35 and 55 and of a younger woman, a pair Andronikos soon identified as the Macedonian king Philip II – father of Alexander the Great, builder of the army and the European empire that gave his son the means to conquer the world – and one of his seven wives ...”