Fifth lecture of Professor Dame Mary Beard's Gifford Lecture series Event details Date: Tuesday 28 May 2019, 5.30 - 6.30pm The lecture may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm. Venue: The Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH Lecture abstract This lecture is about politics ancient and modern. What political inheritance do we imagine we can trace back to the ancient world? On what does our admiration for Athenian democracy rest, or our hatred of Roman autocrats? Lecture video HTML This article was published on 2024-08-28
