"It is the historian's job to draw attention to the personal, social, political and indeed moral issues behind the lit…"

"The worldliness and naturalness with which the religion of the Greeks is reproached is encountered in their plastic a…"

"It is worth quoting Anthony Grafton’s summation of Scaliger’s assault on the prisca theologia presumptions of his con…"

"The first Graeco-Egyptian astrologists did not invent the discipline they claimed to teach the Hellenic world. They u…"

"Our history of philosophy can only be the Greco-Roman-Christian one. We know neither the time of formation nor any ki…"

"Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals’ suffering is someth…"

"There is an image I will never lose, much as I wish I could. It is of a man standing with half his face held in his r…"

"The crowd are on their feet, stamping and cheering, but El Cid just stands and stares at the bull in grave silence, h…"

"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"

"At the first bullfight I ever went to I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I had been told would h…"