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Please note this product has been re-recorded in Apr 2015 It's time for us to reexamine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at the actual Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and regulation, religion and idea and education, also to learn how people really lived in Athens, Rome, Sparta, and Alexandria. That is a book with a serious indicate make, but the author isn't simply a classicist but a comedian and broadcaster who have made tv and radio documentaries about humour, education, and Dorothy Parker. That is a book for us all. Whether politics, cultural or interpersonal, there are infinite parallels between the historical and modern worlds. Be it the murder of Caesar or the politics assassination of Thatcher; the narrative arc of the reach Television set series The Wire or that of Oedipus; the popular eagerness for the emperor Titus or Chief executive Obama - again and again we can be seen to be living very much like people have 2,000 or even more years ago.

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