Ancient & modern

The Spectator | February 8, 1997| | Copyright

TO HUGE acclaim, Professor Patricia Williams, this year's Reith Lecturer on racism, from Columbia University in New York, has hit town. Not that anyone can understand what she is saying, but who cares about that?

In one of his dialogues Plato describes how the great thinker Protagoras (490420 Bc) from Abdera (northern Greece) hits Athens, with admiring retinue. Socrates' young friend Hippocrates is terribly excited at this and begs Socrates for an introduction. He wants to learn how to be wise, but Socrates is dubious - what sort of wisdom is it that Protagoras claims to impart? Still, he ...

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