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...Of course, this should be part of an integrated strategy to keep a global sea lane open but is it really acceptable to allow a state-sponsored terrorist organisation to go unpunished while it disrupts the...
...The Iliad tells the story of the war of Troy and of Achilles, the greatest fighter in the Greek army and the man with the shortest fuse....
...In Homer’s “Iliad”, a prominent oak tree stands near the city of Troy by which gods and goddesses meet and discuss their partisan attitude to the city....
...Richard G Little Visiting Research Scholar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, US...
...Robin Lane Fox is the FT’s gardening columnist and emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...I sat in its front courtyard with its current head gardener, Troy Scott Smith, and discussed the challenges confronting it....
...Visitors roaming Punchdrunk’s new show The Burnt City – a retelling of the fall of Troy – can visit a Dewar’s whisky bar serving “Kykeon” cocktails inspired by a Greek drink mentioned in Homeric texts....
...JPMorgan’s head of sales Marc Badrichani and trading boss Troy Rohrbaugh said in the memo that it was a “precautionary measure”....
...Robin Lane Fox begins The Invention of Medicine on the battlefield of Troy, where Homer’s “anatomical topography” has long been admired by modern students of the “brachial plexus lesion” (a numbed hand after...
...So, on this theory, Hoare devised his entire landscape as a “new Troy”, a place where, like Virgil’s Aeneas, he put down new family roots. Having tested this theory on site, I think it is wrong....
...Gold was 1.2 per cent lower at $1,929 a troy ounce by Wall Street’s close, having earlier risen as much as 1.1 per cent....
...On Thursday palladium was trading at $2108 a troy ounce, to gold’s $1546....
...“I think it was bought when Park Lane was being redeveloped and the statue was no longer needed there,” she says....
...Her broader riposte is her latest novel, The Silence of the Girls (Hamish Hamilton), which retells the siege of Troy through the voice of Briseis, the young queen who became Achilles’ sex slave....
...A new tunnel runs under the river and a six-lane highway bisects the peninsula....
...“It’s got a big garden, it’s in a quiet lane. There’s room.” Nestled between fenland and the river Cam, the house is 350 years old and a work in progress....
...Alice Troy-Donovan Follow @FTProperty on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...It is in Arabic and adapted, but rooted in Euripides’ pitiless play on the Trojan women after the fall of Troy. “We all have our own parts now....
...Of these by far the most moving was the veteran actress Fenella Fielding’s rendering of Hecuba’s lament over the body of her grandson Astyanax, hurled by the victorious Argives from the battlements of Troy...
...Hire a bike or scooter to explore the lanes leading through vineyards to fine sandy beaches such as Ayazma and Ayana – though expect chillier seas this far north....
...Based in Troy – one of the featureless suburbs encircling Detroit – the Kresge Foundation was already spending millions to help clean up the city’s toxic riverfront....
...The New York Federal Reserve recently sold mortgage securities it bought from AIG, known as the Maiden Lane II portfolio....
...The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, by David Abulafia, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 783 pages Mediterranean means “between the lands”....
...The cluttered lanes of Mumbai’s largest gold market were bustling last week as Indians raced to buy chains, bracelets and necklaces ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali....
...Spot gold rose 2.1 per cent to an intraday peak of $1,181.05 a troy ounce yesterday....
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