Voices of Europe. Athens: City of Wisdom
Bruce Clark
Monday, 28 March 2022
12:00pm
1 hour
Bodleian: Divinity School
£7 - £12.50
Author and journalist Bruce Clark tells the 3,000-year history of Athens through a series of critical moments in the city’s history.
Clark’s moments stretch from the reforms of the lawmaker Solon in the sixth century BCE to the struggles of the 21st-century city. They include famous moments such as the removal of the Parthenon marbles by agents of the 7th Earl of Elgin and the holding of the first Olympic Games and lesser known moments such as St Paul preaching on the Areopagus and events during the forgotten Byzantine centuries.
Clark writes on culture and religion for The Economist and is a former Athens correspondent for Reuters. He is author of An Empire’s New Clothes and the Runciman Award-winning Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey.
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