Tim Whitmarsh
Professor of Greek Culture, University of Cambridge
Tim Whitmarsh is the A G Leventis Professor of Greek culture at the University of Cambridge, and has held professorial posts at Oxford and Exeter. His latest book is Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (2015).
Written by Tim Whitmarsh
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The ancient world
Black Achilles
The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
Tim Whitmarsh
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History
Bridging the Hellespont
In the light of the Syrian refugee crisis, how long can we cling to our traditional ideas of ‘Europe’ and ‘Asia’?
Tim Whitmarsh