Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
My father, who is now 94, was an actor. The prime thing he taught us as children was to walk through the… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I travel all over the world, but I'm never happier than when I'm walking up the hill to pick up my children… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
We think the way we do partly because Socrates thought the way he did. His basic idea - that the unexamined life… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Almost everything I have read about Istanbul talks about it as the gateway to the east. We're so programmed to think of… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
One of the flashpoints of the grand war between Athens and Sparta, a millennium after Helen first caused trouble for the Mediterranean… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
To me that is what the Odyssey is all about, it's about being in the world and unexpected challenges and dangers are… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
After I graduated, I carried on with my academic work, via grants but I often had a market stall on Camden Market selling hand-painted… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I think it's ironic when Plato makes the learned woman Aspasia Socrates' teacher, but I think women crop up more in the Platonic dialogues… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Even the picturesque prehistoric settlements at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini were an exercise in problem-solving; white-washed homes and town halls built… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Of all the human figurines discovered so far from 30,000-3,000BC, 92% are of the female form. This is not to say there was any… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I think Socrates was fascinated by Alcibiades. It's almost the opposite of hypocrisy. I think it's like when you can see the potential in… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Sophia - a mystical female presence whose appearance is only fleeting in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament - was clearly once a household… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Ancient Egyptian women had rights under the law. They could own land. Many were literate. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
The word 'America' probably didn't appear in the Persian language until the end of the 18th century - but then with a documented past… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“Herodotus, the ‘Father of History’, records the moment – and you can hear the emotion in his voice as he does so, a mixture… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
