Debate Quote by Bettany Hughes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sophia - a mystical female presence whose appearance is only fleeting in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament - was clearly once a household…

— Bettany Hughes

By day I am a historian, by night a broadcaster.

— Bettany Hughes

Ancient Egyptian women had rights under the law. They could own land. Many were literate.

— Bettany Hughes

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

History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.

— Bettany Hughes

“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