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Dr Alfonso Moreno to speak on Cleisthenes and Athens
On Wednesday 13th November at 4.30 pm, Dr Alfonso Moreno will be speaking on:
‘Do People Need Leaders? The Case of Athens’
Dr Moreno is Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History at Magdalen College, Oxford where he specialises in Greek economic and social history. He is author of Feeding the Democracy – The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC and has co-edited a commentary on the first four books of Herodotus.
Dr Moreno will be looking at Cleisthenes and Athens, and in preparation he recommends reading (in translation) Herodotus V.66-78 and VI.121-131.
The talk is hosted by the St Paul’s Girls’ School Classics Society. Tea and cake will be served from 4.00 in the Dining Hall and the talk will be held in the Old Library. The event will finish between 5.30 and 6.00. There is no charge.
The address of the school is St Paul’s Girls’ School, Brook Green, London, W6 7BS; main telephone 020 7603 2288. The nearest tube is Hammersmith.
All are welcome, but if you or your pupils would like to attend, please email Gregory Wilsdon at gregory.wilsdon@spgs.org with expected numbers as soon as possible and at the latest by Monday 11th November.