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Friday, August 12, 2016

Prufrock: Hellenic Frankness, Jerusalem's Architects, and the 18th-Century Picnic

In our essay of the day (below), Matthew Crawford writes about Greek frankness. Eleanor Dickey explains when and why the Greeks became more polite: "Classical Greece (or at least the portions of it from which most of our surviving literature comes ...


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