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Just back from fabulous Institute Of Ideas Academy weekend, discovering the classical world and having brain expanded. Inspiring atmosphere of intellectual enquiry. Must read Gibbons’ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy.
In honour of all that, here’s a couple of stunning Greek vase paintings of Ganymede, ‘the most beautiful of mortals’, whom Zeus kidnapped to be his cupbearer on Mount Olympus
