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...Most histories of antiquity have been written by Europeans and North Americans, all in some measure the children of Greece and Rome....
...The encounters involved don’t have to be friendly....
...of antiquity, Louis Robert....
...Dealers in classical antiquities have a similar advantage....
...More than 300 yards long and very high, it once led visitors into the hillside to encounter Domitian, the self-styled equal of Jupiter....
...In Howard Brenton’s Cancelling Socrates, we’re in the Athens of antiquity where the infant democracy is already feeling fragile....
...This “David” (1440s), the first freestanding male nude since antiquity, was a symbol of personal as well as political liberty....
...This easy familiarity, so improvised and unexpected, turns the encounter into a theatre scene....
...Original Travel has managed to get exclusive access to La Flâneuse du Nil, a faithful replica of the shallow-draft dahabieh boats that date to antiquity....
...At Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, the city that became a home for Ai Weiwei in 2018 following his self-imposed exile from China, the dissident artist has filled the galleries with an assortment of Chinese antiquities...
...To study the past is not only to encounter a world of monstrous injustices, but also to encounter the values in the name of which we can reject and rectify those injustices....
...Smells are “the most direct . . . and specific encounters with the molecules that make up the world”, he writes....
...There are Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities; Tau Tau statuary from Sulawesi; medieval armour displayed alongside 21st-century ski helmets, all of which shed light on the forms and figures in Opie’s own...
...It was the Arab world that preserved Europe’s philosophical roots for it from antiquity to the Renaissance. A mature European identity would recognise this openness and indebtedness....
...And this encounter, Salmon suggests, set a template for Derrida’s subsequent encounters with English-speaking philosophers, who tended to regard him with intense suspicion....
...“Although it was championed by the then director, Mark Jones, support for the [Encounters] show within the museum was limited....
...The exhibition was commissioned by the Athens-based Neon foundation in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades....
...The initial encounter is perfect....
...The British passion for Canova stems, says Guderzo, from Grand Tourists’ encounters with him....
...Every great city on the planet — at least any great city of the slightest antiquity — evolved as a walking city....
...It is quite another to range vastly over time and space, moving from the clouded origins of the Israelites in antiquity to the tortuous path of the Jews in modernity....
...Despite that initial encounter in Solothurn, Jean-Paul, who died last December aged 86, caught the collecting bug....
...Others include the kings of the House of Savoy, whose paintings by Italian and Dutch masters adorn Turin’s Sabauda Gallery; the collector and consul to Egypt Bernardino Drovetti, whose gathering of antiquities...
...Feted in the national media after the success of his mission, he began receiving calls for help from other parts of India, where lethal encounters between man and beasts were rising after the hunting ban...
...These encounters are not necessarily the rule....
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