I have taught Classics, History, German and French to A-Level and English to Bac. I am fascinated with the Ancient Near East, Early China and Sino-Japanese relations in the Yamato and Heian eras, political development over the Classical period, Ancient Religions and Gothic literature.

OCR A Level Classical Civilisation- Criticisms of Athenian Democracy

Balot 92-3 Probably in the 420s, a political writer known to modern scholars as the “Old Oligarch” translated his anti-demotic sentiments into a wide-ranging analysis of the democrats’ character defects and selfishness. His identity is uncertain, though he appears to be a native Athenian explaining, rather defensively, to foreign aristocrats why the Athenian elite has…

Read more OCR A Level Classical Civilisation- Criticisms of Athenian Democracy