And here's more details about the British Museum talk: www.britishmuseum.org/events/membe...

I've just checked the website, and yes it will be recorded.

Very excited to be giving an online talk to the Friends of the British Museum on March 9th! If like me you're a member, you should have just received the booking email...

Indeed!

I didn’t know this, um, remarkable depiction of the Cave, by 16th century Flemish artist Michiel Coxcie, leaning heavily on Michelangelo’s figures, now in the Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai.

Scruton didn't read Greek (he told me so himself), in case you were wondering.

This is by way of a welcome to new followers. I’m still teaching and researching in this area - the dynamics of gender are a fruitful way to approach classical Athenian democracy, especially its male-dominated public spaces.

I'll be speaking about Plato and his life in Athens at the Oxford Literary Festival on Wednesday March 25. oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

The rest of the museum is an extraordinary jumble of art, antiquities and artefacts from many cultures. Here’s the antiquarian’s studiolo…

Last line of the screenshot which wouldn't fit in the Alt text: '29 Parrhesia and the Critique of Rhetoric in the Classical Polis'. Thanks to all the authors who've come on this long journey with me! More soon; now to settle on a cover image...

Rabbits, as my Grandma would have said!