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SUMMARY:Ashmolean Museum: ‘Knossos\, Myth and Reality’
DESCRIPTION:February 10 – July 30\, 2023\n \n 	Ashmolean Museum\n\n \n\n‘Knossos\, Myth and Reality’\n\n \n\n10 Feb – 30 Jul 2023\n\n \n\nAccording to legend\, an elaborate labyrinth was built at Knossos on the island of Crete to hold a ferocious Minotaur. Discover the palace of Knossos\, and the search for the labyrinth\, in this major exhibition.\n\n \n\nThe palace of Knossos\, discovered and excavated over 100 years ago\, was the centre of a Bronze Age civilisation of people we now call the Minoans\, named after the legendary King Minos.\n\n \n\nThis will be the first UK exhibition to focus on Knossos and will include over 100 objects which have never left Crete and Greece before\, alongside discoveries from the Ashmolean’s Sir Arthur Evans Archive.\n\n \n\nFor further information and bookings\, see here.
URL:https://www.theclassicslibrary.com/event/ashmolean-museum-knossos-myth-and-reality/
LOCATION:Ashmolean Museum\, Beaumont Street\, Oxford\, OX1 2PH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Populism\, Aristotle and Hope: a talk by Rory Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, 8 Jun 2023\, 18:00\n\n \n\nThe Old Library\, Guildhall\n\n \n\nThe period from 1988 to 2003\, was one of extraordinary optimism. Every year the number of democracies increased\, human rights improved\, violent conflict reduced\, there were fewer refugees and there was less global poverty. It was an era of triumph for the western liberal Democratic model for the United States and the politics of the centre ground.\n\n \n\nBut the next 11 years was disrupted by series of humiliating shocks to the west – the fiasco of the Iraq war\, the global financial crisis\, and the emergence of social media all contributed to the loss of faith in the western economic model. This was the period when China having joined the World Trade Organisation grew rapidly larger than the French British German Japanese economies. A period when new democracies ceased to emerge. When the Arab Spring cruelly exposed the false hopes of a Facebook revolution. Public confidence in the future waned.\n\n \n\nThis was the prelude for the new age\, beginning in 2014 – the age of populism. From the election of Narendra Modi in India\, through Brexit\, Trump and Bolsonaro – a new form of politics\, emerged on four continents – pitching an imagined “people“ against an “elite“ exploiting the new potential of social media and growing resentment\, to inflame polarisation. Politics became even more vicious and divisive. The pragmatic centre ground disappeared.\n\n \n\nAcross the world\, the number of democracies began to shrink\, violent conflict increased\, refugees increased so did civilian deaths in conflict. And in 2022\, the Russian invasion of Ukraine brought a new authoritarian inflection to the age of populism. China\, whose economy in 2005 was still smaller than that of the United Kingdom now had an economy seven times larger. The rise of UAE and Saudi reinforced the prestige of authoritarian economic powers. Western failures to respond to the crisis in Syria and Crimea undermined their credibility. The United States and Europe struggling both to come to terms of their own colonial histories and divisions within their own country\, lurched into isolation. International development aid reduced. Poverty in Africa continued to explode.\n\n \n\nMany of the fundamental structures which drove the stagnation\, polarisation and collapse remain today. Nevertheless\, there is a maturity and reality to the centre ground which should still be a source of inspiration.\n\n \n\nReenergising the centre requires rediscovering the fundamental principles of Aristotle‘s theory of language. The combination of logos\, Athos\, and ethos. Hope\, reality\, and truth can\, and should suggest a better future for the democratic politics and the global order.
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